Industry 4.0 supplies enormous quantities of sensor data. Cloud technologies and cloud apps for analyzing this data are becoming the key to greater efficiency and productivity. Here’s a real-life example from the Siemens electronics factory in Amberg, Germany. Are you familiar with Amberg? Situated among gently rolling hills, the city of 42,000 residents blends into the […]

“Robots will steal HALF of all jobs in the world within 15 years creating unemployment crisis for millions, AI expert warns”, is a real headline from a leading UK national newspaper. This warning says jobs such as truckers, salespeople and couriers will become obsolete as artificial intelligence takes over. Contrast this with another headline – […]

Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated the reigning champion Garri Kasparov in 1997 humans are in fear of being outsmarted, overpowered, and put out of work by intelligent machines. These breakthroughs in machine learning mingled with the doomsday infatuation of the closing millennium. Even though the media still profusely tap into this dystopian storyline a lot has changed in the last 20 years. As industrial use cases of AI-algorithms and machine learning are on the increase we now have a much more specific picture of future human-machine collaboration. Intelligent machinery will change the way we operate machines, produce goods, and solve tasks.