Both Rethink Robotics and Universal Robots, have focused on selling to smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and both had big crowds of interested prospects at the recent Automate 2013 show in Chicago.
The private sector is more established in India (notice its better showing again on the Forbes Asia Best Under a Billion list of small- and medium-sized enterprises) but Indonesia is learning bottom-up growth without referral to a strongman and his cronies.
But Messrs Morgan and Cooke say that most small-and medium-sized enterprises still regard their local universities as ivory towers, with little useful to offer.