In the business environment (shops, restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, etc.), indoor robots are the next wave! Do you know why?
In 2016, the wind investment fund focused on robot development has reached 1.95 billion U.S. dollars. Compared with six years ago, this investment has increased tenfold, and this momentum has not made any sense to slow down. Companies developing indoor robots include Cobalt, Aethon, Simbe, Savioke, Diligent Droids, and PAL Robotics.
The vast majority of investment in the past has been focused on the following areas: logistics, warehouse automation, manufacturing robotic arms, health care, medical robots, drones, agricultural robots, automated cars.
The author has observed this industry for many years and finally decided to open a robot company: Cobalt. It was established last year, but it was only in March this year that it really reached everyone's eyes through news reports. I am convinced that indoor robots in the business environment will be one of the fastest growing industries in the next few years, and I have chosen to invest my own money to start a business because of this trend.
For years, "unmanned automated indoor robots" actually means two things: First, robots in the manufacturing or material processing field are often seen in factories and warehouses; second, simple home robots, if we want to make a In the spectrum of robot complexity, the former is on the left and the home robot is on the far right of the complexity of the robot.
One side is a particularly high-level structure, a particularly complex environment, such as factories and warehouses; one side is a very structured single environment: for example, the home environment. But in the middle of it, there is an environment that most people ignore: the business environment.
In the past few years, robots in factories and warehouses have often performed repetitive tasks in relatively independent, isolated spaces, keeping operators at a certain distance from the machines. However, with the further evolution of the robotics industry, such a normal state will undergo very subtle changes in the future, but that is another article. Today we have not pressed the table for the time being.
At the other end, it is the home environment. The home environment is unlike the factory. Everything is in place. All things in it are constantly changing, because there are adults, children, pets, messy things, ladders. Of course, in this scenario, you can develop relatively simple robot products with certain functions, such as sweeping robots, washing clothes, and feeding pets. However, besides, you will find that developing a truly human-oriented product satisfies all aspects of life. The robots are hard to come by.
However, now in the middle of this spectrum, there is a huge, neglected market: the business environment.
The so-called business environment includes hotels, hospitals, offices, retail stores, banks, schools, nursing homes, shopping malls, museums, and so on. If you want to develop a home robot that satisfies human needs, you may wish to focus on the development of indoor robots in a commercial environment. Only if we can succeed in this battle can we achieve the popularity of home robots.
Why do you say that? Because compared with home, the business environment has the following very key advantages:
1. The business environment itself, in conjunction with various commercial activities that take place within it, occupies a very large proportion in the entire economy and plays an absolutely important role.
In particular, there are various “pain points†in different business environments because of the urgent need for solutions. These companies also have a large budget on hand. Under this premise, the robot can provide a huge enough value that can be quantified.
If we compare it with "home robots", we will judge it. Consumers of "home automation robots" often have spare cash in their hands, but they are not many. They do not know how to spend their time thinking about buying a robot to taste fresh, let alone the value of the robot itself is not very clear. Correspondingly, the function of the robot in the business environment will be very clear, there is a clear demand, and there is a sufficient budget, which is one of the reasons why the robot of the business environment can rise in the next few years.
2. There are many rigorous laws in the business environment that have explicit requirements for buildings.
For example, the "Americans with Disabilities Protection Act" requires the building space to provide handicapped convenience. It is precisely because of the existence of these bills that the standards for the design of porches, entrances, slopes, elevators, corridors, and guide signs have been unified, which greatly facilitates the design of robots. For example, if we now want to design a robot similar to an electric wheelchair, we actually have a lot of possible reference cases and design standards because we only need to refer to electric wheelchairs.
3. The vast majority of business environments have a very reliable communications infrastructure.
Such as cellular networks and Wi-Fi, this is to meet the normal business operations needs, but also means that the robot inside and the cloud to maintain a real-time, seamless connection. In fact, this last point is most easily overlooked. Automation is often lacking in the final "foot-to-door", mainly because of the lack of data connectivity, and to see how unmanned self-driving cars are struggling in this area! With such reliable network support, people can remotely control the robot. Today, with the continuous development of algorithms and sensors, it is easy for us to open applications that meet the needs of reality.
For the above reasons, we can foresee that in the next few years, the development of robotics in the business environment will become a trend boom.
There are several companies that have begun to focus on the development of indoor robots, including: Cobalt (My company), providing security, patrolling and other services for offices, museums and other indoor environments;
Savioke, a robotic waiter in the hotel;
Maidbot developed robots to clean up hotel rooms;
Pal, Simbe, Bossa Nova and Keonn, the robots developed by these companies focus on inventory management in retail stores;
Robots developed by Fello provide monitoring and analysis for retail stores;
Diligent Droids, developed a hospital nurse assistant robot;
Robots developed by Aethon can transport goods.
In essence, the products developed by these companies are no different from an unmanned self-driving car, but they have different values ​​for realization, different customers, and different components. So when billions of dollars are spent on R&D of unmanned self-driving cars, the automation industry as a whole has benefited: The technology has improved and the cost has decreased, including but not limited to the following areas: Sensors, computing hardware, algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, open source software, etc.
But at the same time, the development of indoor robots also has varying degrees of challenges. Unlike unmanned self-driving cars, indoor robots need to interact closely with people in a space and seamlessly integrate with a company. It is precisely because of this that when designing these robots, industrial design, human-machine interaction, and even psychology have become very important areas of knowledge. Therefore, if a company wants to engage in the development in this area, it is necessary to search for talents in these fields as soon as possible.
For the past few years, I'm most gratified that the newly emerged companies are no longer clinging to the ideas of the past. They are not only developing for the creation of cool robots. These robots are often larger than ever. content. Today's companies begin to focus on the problem itself, with the goal of targeting real customers who are willing to pay. If all of my above judgments are true, we will see the strong rise of indoor robots in the next few years!
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