Investor money has forever flowed to innovation in robotics. Robots on the Runway at Digital Health at CES offered a view of what was new then in human-like robots, the most charming was Anybots QB, now QB2 – which would 'go to the office for you.' In fact, this ‘telepresence’ robot begs the question, what’s a robot anyway – is it a 'machine controlled device through an external or (usually internal) computer, often equipped with audio, visual, and/or tactile sensors as well as other devices and tools to perform one or several programmed jobs?' Oh yeah. They can be autonomous, like the iRobot one for the military – working on their own. Like Anybots, they could be a telepresence robot – a 'remote controlled, wheeled device that has wireless internet connectivity.' And the market for all types in healthcare globally some say is $2.8 billion.
Ramat Gan, Israel, July 11, 2017-- Intuition Robotics, developer of social companion technologies for positive social impact, announced a $14M A-round investment today led by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). TRI joins early A-round investors OurCrowd and iRobot as well as existing seed investors Maniv Mobility, Terra Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, and additional private investors who participated in the round.
The Yomiuri Shimbun Interacting with communication robots helps elderly people be more independent in their everyday lives, with a recent large-scale trial demonstrating a 34 percent increase in the degree of independent living after such interactions, according to a national research and development agency.
Investor money has forever flowed to innovation in robotics. 