Are AI agents our industry's industrial robots?
Hold on - haven't we been here before? · August 3, 2026 Agile Lean AI The revolution, well paradigm shift rather, we are experiencing in AI has a likening with how industrial robots made a paradigm shift in the manufacturing industry in the 80-ies. Both when it comes to how it was introduced, the fears it raised, the mistakes “we” did utilizing the power and how the winners ended up using them. Now, I’m old but in the 1980-ies I was 10 years old and more interested in playing games on my Vic 20, soccer and riding my bike (yes, it was a simpler life).
- ▪Hold on - haven't we been here before? · August 3, 2026 Agile Lean AI The revolution, well paradigm shift rather, we are experiencing in AI has a likening with how industrial robots made a paradigm shift in the manufacturing industry in the
- ▪Both when it comes to how it was introduced, the fears it raised, the mistakes “we” did utilizing the power and how the winners ended up using them.
- ▪Now, I’m old but in the 1980-ies I was 10 years old and more interested in playing games on my Vic 20, soccer and riding my bike (yes, it was a simpler life).
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| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:13:26 +0000 |
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AI flow - Are AI our as robots? Hold on - haven't we been here before? · August 3, 2026 Agile Lean AI The revolution, well paradigm shift rather, we are experiencing in AI has a likening with how industrial robots made a paradigm shift in the manufacturing industry in the 80-ies. Both when it comes to how it was introduced, the fears it raised, the mistakes “we” did utilizing the power and how the winners ended up using them. Now, I’m old but in the 1980-ies I was 10 years old and more interested in playing games on my Vic 20, soccer and riding my bike (yes, it was a simpler life). But I have read a lot about this topic since this was when Toyota started to blow the competition out of the water.
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