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Approaches to Robotics in the United States and Japan Report of a Bilateral Exchange (1990) / Chapter Skim
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... Growing consumer demand for individualized products is forcing many manufacturers to shift to smaller production runs of greater varieties of products, a move that relies on highly flexible factory automation systems; for robots this means higher-level intelligence. Further development of robotics technology holds the promise of robots capable of working in less structured environments-outdoors and in the home.
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... Japan is promoting international collaboration through the Symposium for International Cooperation on Industrial Robots, the International Robotics and Factory Automation Center, the International Joint Research Development Program for Next Generation Production Technology, and the Law for Facilitating Governmental Research Exchange. A Japanese proposal for an international project, Intelligent Manufacturing System, was under discussion in early 1990.
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