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    In a factory with no humans, advanced technologies take their place. Even a fully autonomous, lights-out operations may still need human oversight in some form, in case of equipment failure or security risk. Maybe our future factories will run completely by AI-enabled robots and systems, However, with industry's current technology, experts foresee autonomous machines and systems but within some constraints.

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