&gt; factories will be buying computers, cameras, and GPUs instead of people for inspection<p>There&#x27;s a lot of this stuff on the market already. Even self-contained machine vision devices can be pretty powerful, like this[1] integrated camera+light device with built-in web server for setup and configuration and monitoring. With the built-in software, you can measure parts and verify shapes and dimensions and read labels.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microscan.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;Products&#x2F;Machine-Vision-Systems&#x2F;Vision-MINI-Xi-Smart-Camera.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microscan.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;Products&#x2F;Machine-Vision-Syste...</a>