"The 90s was the era of the PC and the Internet. The first decade of the 21st century will be dominated by robots."

Toshitada Doi, Vice President of Sony Corporation

INTRODUCTION

More often, the current development stage of service robotics is compared to PCs back in the 70s. What will happen in the next ten years? Probably the same as for the PCs. Someone will find a nice profitable application - as the word processor associated with the printer for PCs - and new robots will appear. The hardware and safety approach of the robots will get standardized, as it happened with the PC hardware is. This makes the next ten years the most important period to establish a key position in the new emerging service robotics market.

Statistics and Forecast

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