Industrial Automation

Also known only as automation

Noun

  • The use of machines and computers, such as robots, to perform tasks previously considered repetitive, automatically and with minimal human interaction

Common Misspellings: industrail automaition

Synonyms

Automaton

Etymology

automatic +‎ -ion or automaton +‎ -ion; coined by a Ford Executive Vice President, Delmar S. Harder, in the 1940s.

Related terms

Robot – Robotics

Questions

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Other in Robot Glossary

Turing Test

A test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human

Hybrot

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Other terms in robot vocabulary

Turing Test

A test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human

Hybrot

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AI – Artificial Intelligence

The simulation of human intelligence in machines to perform tasks such as learning, decision making, problem solving, visual perception and natural language processing

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