By Dijam Panigrahi. Originally published in Robotics Tomorrow.
Robotics as a Service is turning automation from a capital purchase into a subscription, and spatial AI is giving those robots the ability to read a live, changing factory floor instead of following a fixed path.
Dijam Panigrahi explains why the combination matters for a manufacturing workforce gap that keeps widening, and what plants should check before signing on: network readiness for real-time 3D mapping, training that keeps pace with deployment, ownership of the data robots collect, and where standardization should stop.