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Robots, agents, and copilots unite to turn intelligence into action. By Boris Dmitriev and Daniel Krampe
One of the newest additions to the production floor at Martur Fompak International’ s automotive interior component plant in Turkey arrived without a résumé or any prior work experience, but with a welldefined job description: execute a series of repetitive and physically demanding tasks to free others in the workforce to focus on safer, less monotonous and higher-value work.
After just a few months on the job, the new arrival, HMND 01 Alpha, a robot built by the UK company Humanoid, is accomplishing all that and more. Not only is it increasing efficiency across the manufacturing plant and warehouse, it also is enabling employees to focus on inventory management, quality checks, and resolving operational exceptions- tasks that require human judgment. Ultimately, the robot is proving that digital intelligence can be transformed into physical action on the shop floor and in the warehouse with a combination of generative AI, agentic AI and physical( or embodied) AI.
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