Ten years ago this week, five autonomous robots completed the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, the winner (to be declared on Sunday) travelling the 132 mile course in less than 7.5 hours.
Just think of the future, will companies like Ricoh, Canon, and Konica Minolta make the shift to developing and manufacturing robots? I think so, the business model would be similar to copy machines with planned obsolescence, consumables and would need a technical force to maintain.
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