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Research 4.0: Research In The Age Of Automation, Rob Procter, Ben Glover, Elliot Jones
Research 4.0: Research In The Age Of Automation, Rob Procter, Ben Glover, Elliot Jones
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There is a growing consensus that we are at the start of a fourth industrial revolution, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, robotics, the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, 5G, new forms of energy storage and quantum computing. This wave of technical innovations is already having a significant impact on how research is conducted, with dramatic change across research methods in recent years within some disciplines, as this project’s interim report set out.
Whilst there are a wide range of technologies associated with the fourth industrial revolution, this report primarily seeks to understand what …