Although his heavenly body-inspired market timing may seem far-fetched, Crawford's work (using the Bradley model) correctly called for a steep drop in September 2001 and a low on the autumnal equinox that year.
"Robots that are currently 'luxury' according to price will be commoditized in the future and drop in price, very similar to the PC model, " predicts Dan Kara , president of Robotics Trends .
The two groups worked largely independently to avoid a common shortcut taken by many other manufacturers, which is to simply drop the top bar on a men's model and say it's for women.