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Since the industrial revolution, humanity has made tremendous progress in manufacturing. With time we have seen more and more of mundane manual work being replaced by automation through advanced engineering, computers, robotics and now IoT. We believe that recent advances in AI (or Deep Learning to be more precise) will help accelerate this trend towards automation in a fascinating way. This is because AI adds one very critical component that the factories have been missing till today — “<strong>The ability of machines to see</strong>”. With computer vision-enabled robots, a lot of new and unexplored territories of automation can now be explored. “Object Detection” is a branch of Computer Vision that deals with finding specific objects (like humans, RedBull Cans, cartons of RedBull Cans etc) from an image. With this, blog, we will make a case about why Object Detection is a key building block for manufacturing automation and how you should think about it.