AI Is Moving to the Factory Floor - Connected World

Here at Connected World and The Peggy Smedley Show, we have spent the last few years talking about AI (artificial intelligence), and now there is an AI revolution happening—one that is much more physical, and it is happening on the factory floor.

The 2026 Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Manufacturing, published by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), makes one thing clear: AI and machine learning are moving deeper into the systems that make, move, measure, and maintain the things we depend on every day.

Why? Because manufacturing is not an isolated industry that exists somewhere far away from our daily lives. It is connected to the products we buy, the cars we drive, the buildings we live and work in, and the supply chains that keep our economy humming.

All those systems are now becoming more intelligent, which means we could see factories...

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