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The European toy industry is very heavily dependent on manual labour and therefore vulnerable to Far Eastern competitors, who have the advantage of lower labour costs. Automation is Europe’s best hope of beating off the oriental challenge.
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Trabasso, L.G., Hewit, J.R., Slade, A.P. (1991). Vision Assisted Robotics in the Decoration and Assembly of Scale Models. In: Tzafestas, S.G. (eds) Engineering Systems with Intelligence. Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2560-4_44
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