0 the use of machines and computers that can operate without needing human control: --
1 the use of machines that operate automatically: --
factory automation
2 the use of machines or computers instead of people to do a job, especially in a factory or office: --
Advances in factory automation and related technologies have allowed companies to raise output without increasing costs.
Our goal is to develop a generally applicable feedback method that is better suited for the flexible automation of microassembly processes.
Composed of hundreds of miniature histologic tissue cores taken from patient tumors and arrayed in a grid pattern, tissue microarrays have great potential for automation.
Looking back at the history of machines, it has gone through mechanization and automation, and now is moving toward autonomy.
Introduction and software agents supporting decision-making and maintenance is the main challenge for research and applications of a cost effective automation.
The automation task naturally requires the use of a diverse range of sensors and systems in order to deliver useful guidance and communication systems.
This concept proposes a distributed approach to robotics and flexible automation.
The stationmasters thus retained manual control over this pool of reservations whilst supporting automation of the larger set of reservations previously controlled by railway clerks.
The automation of circular motions in the planetarium had to be adapted to the speed of the individual heavenly bodies' movements, according to astronomical calculations.
