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by Roguelazer 1045 days ago
"Our work leads to a disruptive technology that can accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) with HADAR-based autonomous navigation and human–robot social interactions."

Really, though?

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These industrial revolutions are coming faster and faster, and somehow feel less transformative with each unveiling. I only know arguably two. I have no idea what the third, let alone the fourth was.
First: powered tools, mechanised factories, basic but modern chemical processes.

Second: mass production, interchangeable parts, reliable steel, telegraph and other basic uses of electricity.

Third: computers and everything related to them.

Fourth: all the buzzwords and not much substantial at this time — though when the dust settles, I won't be surprised if at least a few currently popular things are still seen as relevant and not merely flash-in-the-pan cultural artefacts like the 18th Amendment, patent medicine, or Spiritualism.

Industrial, chemical, and information.
Jeez... that reads like poorly written PR.

It doesn't belong in academic work, no matter how impressive the authors think it may be.