The Rise of the ‘Cobot’: Why 2026 is the Year of Human-Robot Collaboration

For decades, the prevailing narrative of industrial automation has been one of displacement: a zero-sum game where a machine enters the factory floor and a human worker leaves it. It was a story of cages—literally. Traditional industrial robots, the high-speed titans welding chassis in automotive plants, were powerful, blind, and dangerous. They operated behind safety […]