{"id":139480,"date":"2025-09-04T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139480"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:31:56","slug":"ft-ai-robot-ballet-promises-to-choreograph-production-line-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139480","title":{"rendered":"(FT) AI \u2018robot ballet\u2019 promises to choreograph production line gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists have used artificial intelligence to choreograph teams of robots to work together without colliding, an advance that promises to boost the efficiency of carmaking and other complex production lines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system, known as RoboBallet, potentially allows machine troupes to plan their work faster and complete more tasks, according to research from UCL and Alphabet\u2019s subsidiaries Google DeepMind and Intrinsic. The project shows how AI is driving efforts for industrial process optimisation, as developers seek to solve long-standing problems of robot team members getting in each other\u2019s way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRoboBallet transforms industrial robotics into a choreographed dance, where each arm moves with precision, purpose, and awareness of its teammates,\u201d said Matthew Lai, a researcher at UCL Computer Science and Google DeepMind. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about avoiding crashes; it\u2019s about achieving harmony at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/31d959cf-a037-4330-8ea9-8d064c9ac613\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AI \u2018robot ballet\u2019 promises to choreograph production line gains <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NNZ3ymsZtg\">https:\/\/t.co\/NNZ3ymsZtg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FT Technology News (@fttechnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fttechnews\/status\/1963301478937837876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have used artificial intelligence to choreograph teams of robots to work together without colliding, an advance that promises to boost the efficiency of carmaking and other complex production lines. The system, known as RoboBallet, potentially allows machine troupes to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139480\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139480"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139487,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139480\/revisions\/139487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}