What technology advances have made mobile robots more viable for business use?
You can pull [the robot] out of the box, and you start the robot learning the building by driving it around with a joystick. As soon as it has learned the building and created a floor plan, it can drive around on its own. We could not have done that four years ago. You sell the PatrolBot as a roving security device that includes audio, a navigational laser, a video camera and other sensors. Why would I use that in the enterprise? You would use a robot to increase reliability, to increase flexibility, to increase redundancy, to provide better situational awareness to the staff, to reduce risk to the staff and to save money. [PatrolBot] provides situational awareness to the other guards. To be looking at something and to see the floor plan, see where the robot is in the floor plan and what it’s looking at perhaps from a 360 view and a pan-tilt-zoom view, that gives you what’s called situational awareness. How does PatrolBot find and interact with an intruder? The standard PatrolBot has t
