The business of robots: Why robotics are finally taking over corporate America
Via CNN Money:
Big Tech is on the precipice of breaking the robotics industry wide open, according to Bourne. If we compare the robotic industry to the computing boom, Bourne believes we're still in 1980. It's not quite 1984, when the Macintosh made computers mainstream, but robotics breakthroughs are quickly heading in that direction.
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Points:
- “Robots are truly beginning to make their way into big business: from manufacturing and agriculture to telecommuting bots, surgical machines and wildfire-fighting drones.”
- “Corporate America is investing so heavily in robots because they're cheap and perform functions humans can't or don't want to do.”
- “The technology is finally sophisticated -- and affordable -- enough for companies to consider adding robotics in a relatively simple and cost-effective manner.”
- “…robots now take all sorts of forms.”
