A robotic workcell assembled from many interlocking industrial components

The Integration Layer

The largest robotics opportunity may not be a more human machine, but a cheaper path from an empty factory floor to reliable production.

The robotic system inside NIST's Living Measurement Systems Foundry. Photo: David Ross / NIST.

The Laboratory That Learns

When software can choose, run and interpret the next experiment, discovery becomes a closed-loop production system.