Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

How the Pandemic Sparked Innovation in Robotics

21 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A asks whether organizations have become more open to adopting new technologies to address employee skills gaps. Speaker B reflects on the COVID‑19 pandemic, describing it as a terrible event that forced a reassessment of many practices. He highlights that the pandemic created an inflection point for the robotics sector, especially for collaborative robots (cobots), leading to a surge in business and orders. While acknowledging the devastation caused by the pandemic, he suggests that embracing new technologies now may lead to a better world, despite the difficulty of seeing positive outcomes from such a crisis.

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Have you seen more openness to try new technologies that might relieve some of the employee skills gaps issues and other stuff like that over the last few years?
I think you nailed it, Jan, that it was a really horrible event, that pandemic, but it's now caused people to relook at everything. And it's driving— I mean, if you just look at the robotics industry with cobots, it's caused a change in the curve, an inflection point. Where they're overwhelmed with business and orders, which is an exciting thing. We need it to happen desperately. So yeah, I think it's hard to say there's good that came out of it. You don't wanna think about that because of the devastation that it caused. But I think we're, we're gonna be a better world now that we embrace some of these, these concepts and they, and people are doing it.