Robots will have a fundamental role in changing several industrial applications and with their multifaced characteristics, they will likely be employed for many other future applications. When a disruptive technology like blockchain is combined with robotics, it will make the robotic functions safer, more autonomous, more flexible, and more profitable.

Blockchain is a comparatively newer technology then robotics and, along with robotics, has the potential to reinvent the digital business altogether.

Robots are becoming smarter and less costly over time. Today a business may own only a few robotic units, often old and almost obsolete, but we are not far from when a key section of an industry would be managed by the new generation of smart robots. Though, the problem is how a group of robots can be able to work towards a common goal or accomplish a useful task like collecting data of the population in an predetermined urban area?

This is where blockchain would play a vital role in distributing information so that the group of robots can fulfill the task or solve problems efficiently. The group of robots that work together to perform a task is called a swarm.

Robots have been a part of the manufacturing industry for over thirty years. They can provide high quality components and finished products and do it reliably and repeatedly even in hazardous or unpleasant environments and processes.

After an initial surge of interest many repetitive and unpleasant tasks were successfully automated and most new tasks of this nature are routinely done using robot technology. Growth in this area of automation slowed through the 1990s as lean manufacturing principles pushed through highly flexible, simple manufacturing solutions. Robots were mostly considered as costly and relatively inflexible. Yet, at the same time, the rate of product turnover and new product introductions were also accelerating, leading to the uptake of so-called ‘mass customization’ to many manufacturing sectors.

Recently, software that enables a robot to be accurately modelled in virtual reality has enabled novel manufacturing solutions using robot technology to be developed in parallel with the product manufactured, reducing the time taken to get new production capacity operational, and hence new products to market. This has gone some way to addressing the concern that robots can be unwieldy in addition to being expensive.

The latest approach to simulation technology enables the user to completely model the robot, its cores, and anything in or near it. With improved integration at the planning phase to the upstream and downstream systems, robots may now be re-configured to accommodate new products more easily. The programming tasks for the new products may be undertaken ‘offline’ with the robot still in operation, hence flexibility is beginning to be restored to this potentially powerful technology, giving it a major chance to get mainstream.

New flexible programming combined with the latest generation of user friendly robots has experienced a new rise in the uptake of automated solutions to manufacturing issues.

An ultimate goal of Bottos is to finally realize a friendly collaboration between robots and humans in the near future. The Bottos platform aims to help robots grow rapidly in a distributed manner at this stage. With Bottos, robots can realize the one-stop transformation to become a blockchain robot, achieving rapid iteration while lowering costs and keeping a high level of efficiency.

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