Just behind MicroStrategy is newcomer Intuitive Surgical, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of robotic systems for performing surgery.
But robotic systems can be surprisingly intelligent as well.
Liu Kun, a spokesman for Foxconn, said in a China Daily story published Saturday that the company had been on a steady course for a while to replace manpower with robotic systems.
Trower, who's working on Microsoft's own software platform for robotic systems, says this kind of PC bot would serve as a multiapplication communication and work device, but it would have microphones and touch-screens for interacting with humans and the same adaptable and moving form factor as a small robot.
Intuitive Surgical has had a roller coaster ride since we initiated coverage on the robotic surgical systems developer last December.
Despite these incidents the operator, Robotic Parking Systems, insists that cars are less likely to suffer accidental damage than in a traditional car park.
Intuitive Surgical, a developer of robotic surgical systems called da Vinci Surgical System, is set to release its Q4 2012 earnings on January 22.
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NASA's work in robotic exoskeleton systems complements work done by other government agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation Program.
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Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.
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With additional support from robotic surgery, new technologies offer the prospects of designing new health care systems that address the needs of the elderly while lowering costs.
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