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Over the past few years, the world of small robots has expanded considerably. Robots have become affordable for smaller manufacturers. The result is that robots are getting incorporated into the production space with human workers. This is raising safety issues. Standards are getting developed to ensure the safety of workers who interact with robots – or cobots – that are now outside traditional robot cages.
Cybersecurity risks for industrial control systems are continuing to increase from threats via industrial espionage, to actual physical damage and financial loss due to downtime. A key trend moving ahead is new technology addressing critical areas including asset and material tracking, enhanced HMI authentication and stronger VPN credentials.
Imagine a human factory worker who does $50,000 worth of work. As such this human worker pays income tax, social security, state, federal, ect. Now imagine that the factory converts to a smart factory and his job is replaced by a robot. Shouldn't that robot be subject to similar taxation? That's the argument Bill Gates made in a recent interview with Quartz.
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