Tees Business Tees Business issue 12 | Page 56

56 | Tees Business Applied Scientific Technologies wins major AI export contracts RISE OF THE ROBOTS The chances are, at some point in your life, you’ve purchased a bottle of shampoo, a can of pop and a packet of headache tablets. What you may not appreciate is that those products have previously been in the hands of robots, from the moment they were invented. In fact, it’s quite possible the products were invented by a machine intelligence algorithm. Confused? Intrigued? Let us tell you more… Tomorrow's world now: Stokesley-based Applied Scientific Technologies have developed a patent-pending robotic autonomous system that allows companies to build their own research scientist or production line operative.