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Cloud Robotic: Opening a New Road to the Industry 4.0

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New Developments and Advances in Robot Control

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Cloud Robotics (CR) is a rising field of robotics rooted in cloud computing, cloud storage, and other Internet technologies centered around the benefits of converged infrastructure and shared services. It allows robots to benefit from the powerful computational, storage, and communications resources of modern data centers. In addition, it removes overheads for maintenance and updates, and reduces dependence on custom middleware. This chapter reviews the concept of cloud-enabled robotics with some of the most applications related to it. Also, it explores the trends of robotic technology in Industry 4.0. Since the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), economies around the world have ground dramatically as companies can compete on a global scale. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will be based on cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and Internet of Services.

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  1. Faculty of Science Dhar El Marhraz, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco

    Manal Aissam, Mohammed Benbrahim & Mohammed Nabil Kabbaj

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  1. Sfax Engineering School, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

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  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Sultan Quaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Jawhar Ghommam

  3. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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Aissam, M., Benbrahim, M., Kabbaj, M.N. (2019). Cloud Robotic: Opening a New Road to the Industry 4.0. In: Derbel, N., Ghommam, J., Zhu, Q. (eds) New Developments and Advances in Robot Control. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 175. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2212-9_1

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