The idea is not new of course . Fir many decades people have been dreaming of a fully autonomous plant , transport , school ..everything . But , the question that have always been in the discussion is that if we really need and ready to accept this ???

I believe, we are closer to this than many people believe. I did plant optimization with SPPA-P3000 for many years, work on simulators now and I believe, that the Simulators will make the difference at the end. Autonomous cars are trained on Simulators, so we will do with power plants. Also 3D models will be integrated first to the Simulator, then to the DCS and those will help partially autonomous robots and Drones to navigate, identify and solve problems. Last year my colleagues and me wrote a Technology Whitepaper about this topic. It can be found on my internal Siemens website (Concepts&Innovation, Mid-Long Term Innovation and Simulation)