Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“One of the most rapidly growing areas in manufacturing is automation. Companies today need to beglobally competitive and thus must be abl e to justify highly skilled labor through the efficiency of theiroperation. To this end, collaborative robots (COBOTs) as well as other automated machinery, mu st beeffectively integrated into each production process and work as independen tly of human intervention aspossible.
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