The Next Big Thing in Robotics

Posted on March 16, 2017 by GilPress

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Travis Deyle, Why Indoor Robots for Commercial Spaces Are the Next Big Thing in Robotics:

Venture funding for robotics has exploded by more than 10x over the last six years and shows no signs of stopping. Most of this investment has been focused on the usual suspects: logistics, warehouse automation, robot arms for manufacturing, healthcare and surgical robots, drones, agriculture, and autonomous cars…

There’s a massive, untapped market… Commercial spaces such as hotels, hospitals, offices, retail stores, banks, schools, nursing homes, schools, malls, and museums.

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