Robots, productivity and quality

  • Authors:
  • Charles A. Rosen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM '72 Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

There is a growing national need to increase the real productivity of our society, wherein “productivity” is redefined to include such major factors as the quality of life of workers and the quality of products, consistent with the desires and expectations of the general public. This paper proposed the development of automation technology designed to increase quality, in all its aspects, at an acceptable cost to society. The proposed program is divided into two phases. The first phase is designed to catalyze the potential resources of industrial concerns by developing two demonstrable systems that include general-purpose programmed manipulation and automated inspection. The second phase, with longer term objectives, would aim at devising techniques to broaden the utilization of programmed manipulators and sensors, to provide supervisory control of these systems by human speech, and to develop a capability for automatic manipulation of two or more sensor-controlled “hands” working cooperatively.