According to the latest statistics from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the first six months of 2021 saw an 18 percent increase to $1.5 billion over the same period in 2020, which is the best start to a year on record. And those numbers aren’t expected to decline. Why the increase?

Whether they are going mobile or adding artificial intelligence, a range of robots are appearing on the manufacturing floor - and more are on the way.

While artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining favor as a solution to quality problems, it brings a number of new, sometimes confusing, terms. As a first step, many manufacturers ask “What is AI?”

Launched in 2000 by the Automated Imaging Association, the Camera Link™ digital interface standard has stood the test of time.