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Shiseido Adds Robots to Assembly Line

A new form of manufacturing via “collaboration of humans and robots."

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Robots are coming! Robots are coming! Forget it—they're already here. Shiseido Company, Limited (Shiseido) has introduced a pilot program of deploying industrial humanoid robots on the assembly lines of makeup products at its Kakegawa factory this month—a first for a cosmetic manufacturer. At Kakegawa, one human worker and two humanoid robots work together to assemble various parts of varied shapes and materials, delivering finished products. While humanoid robots cover the procedures that ...

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