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What would be robotics' Silicon Valley?

by lpasselin 9y ago

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visarga 9y ago
You mean what would be robotics' Y?
a_bonobo 9y ago
All the big robotics companies are in Tokyo, to quote Wikipedia: >The Robotics industry is more important in Japan than any other country in the world. Japan employs over a quarter of a million industrial robot workers. In the next 15 years, Japan estimates that number to jump to over one million and they expect revenue for robotics to be near $70 billion by 2025.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_robotics#Japanese_robotics_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_robotics#Japanese_rob... When in Japan I've interacted with robots in a shopping mall: they had replaced their information stands by robots with ipads, so you could either ask them a question (didn't work due to the mall's noise) or just enter the relevant information on their belly's iPad-like devices.
- lacker 9y ago
  Reminds me of when all the advanced cell phone development was in Tokyo....
- deleted 9y ago
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- ralfd 9y ago
  Though that this was a robot (or just humanoid shaped) in the mall is just a cultural artifact. A touch-screen info panel in a western place has the same (or better) functionality, just without the sentiment.
- Symmetry 9y ago
  Japan is really big in industrial robots but I haven't seen as much out of there in terms of intelligent robots that sense and respond to their environment.
  - webtechgal 9y ago
    SONY AIBO. 'In 2006, AIBO was added into the Carnegie Mellon University Robot Hall of Fame with the description "the Sony AIBO represents the most sophisticated product ever offered in the consumer robot marketplace."' From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO
bluetwo 9y ago
Pittsburgh
Symmetry 9y ago
There seem to be a lot of robotics companies here in Boston. Boston Dynamics, iRobot, Amazon Robotics, Rethink Robotics, and a bunch of startups like the one I work at.

What would be robotics' Silicon Valley?

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visarga 9y ago

You mean what would be robotics' Y?

a_bonobo 9y ago

All the big robotics companies are in Tokyo, to quote Wikipedia: >The Robotics industry is more important in Japan than any other country in the world. Japan employs over a quarter of a million industrial robot workers. In the next 15 years, Japan estimates that number to jump to over one million and they expect revenue for robotics to be near $70 billion by 2025.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_robotics#Japanese_robotics_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_robotics#Japanese_rob... When in Japan I've interacted with robots in a shopping mall: they had replaced their information stands by robots with ipads, so you could either ask them a question (didn't work due to the mall's noise) or just enter the relevant information on their belly's iPad-like devices.

lacker 9y ago
Reminds me of when all the advanced cell phone development was in Tokyo....
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ralfd 9y ago
Though that this was a robot (or just humanoid shaped) in the mall is just a cultural artifact. A touch-screen info panel in a western place has the same (or better) functionality, just without the sentiment.
Symmetry 9y ago
Japan is really big in industrial robots but I haven't seen as much out of there in terms of intelligent robots that sense and respond to their environment.
- webtechgal 9y ago
  SONY AIBO. 'In 2006, AIBO was added into the Carnegie Mellon University Robot Hall of Fame with the description "the Sony AIBO represents the most sophisticated product ever offered in the consumer robot marketplace."' From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO

bluetwo 9y ago

Pittsburgh

Symmetry 9y ago

There seem to be a lot of robotics companies here in Boston. Boston Dynamics, iRobot, Amazon Robotics, Rethink Robotics, and a bunch of startups like the one I work at.