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Applied roboticsPractitioner5 hrsIn person / Live online

Robotics: What It Can and Cannot Do

A grounded introduction for people whose work is about to involve a robot. Separates what the technology genuinely does well from what the trade press implies, using real deployments and real failure modes.

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Runs most often inManufacturing and industrialsLogistics and supply chainHealthcare and life sciences

What participants can do afterwards

  • Describe in plain terms what a robot is good at and where it struggles
  • Recognise the tasks in your own operation that suit automation
  • Identify the hidden costs that make a promising case uneconomic
  • Ask a vendor a question their demo does not answer
  • Learn from a deployment that failed as well as one that worked

Modules

4 modules, 5 facilitated hours.

  1. 1.What a robot is good at

    1.5 hrs

    Capability and its limits, using real deployments rather than promotional video.

    • Describe realistic robot capability and limits

  2. 2.Finding candidate tasks

    1.5 hrs

    Which parts of your own operation actually suit automation.

    • Identify suitable tasks in your own operation

  3. 3.The costs nobody quotes

    1 hrs

    Integration, changeover, maintenance and the ongoing skills bill.

    • Account for the costs a proposal omits

  4. 4.Deployments up close

    1 hrs

    Walkthroughs of real deployments - one that paid back and one that did not - and what separated them.

    • Explain what separated a successful deployment from a failed one

How it is delivered

A facilitator runs the course live, in person or live online. Attendance is taken per session, participants submit work against the modules above, and a facilitator grades it. Those records stay with the organisation and can be exported.

Further reading

Robotics training is an operations problem, not an engineering one is the public briefing that sits next to this course.

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