08/06/2025
🖋️: Mohammed Shabih
Autonomous Systems represent the latest step in the long journey of automation (the process of machines performing tasks with minimal human input). During the Industrial Revolution, sewing machines, conveyor belts, and a whole host of new machines replaced hard and arduous physical labour, boosting productivity in factories. The Computer Revolution automated complex calculations, record keeping, and logistics, repetitive taskst hat machines could do at a much higher speed and scale. And now, we are witnessing the development of the autonomous system – systems that are capable of intelligent decision-making itself. Researchers at the Electronic Systems Laboratory (ESL), located on the ground floor of Stellenbosch University’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building, are at the frontier of this new era of innovation.
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📷: Ryan van Heerden and Sebastiaan Whitward
