Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning. However, knowledge about what the terms actually mean is often not yet extensively available. The article presents some basic knowledge and shows which application possibilities and added values machine learning can offer for production. Robotics, for example a bin-picking system, benefits in particular from the technologies described. Finally, the article deals with the topic of explainability of machine learning processes. For technical, legal and social reasons, decoding the “black box” is an essential task.
