{"id":21214,"date":"2016-01-26T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T21:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/2016-the-year-of-robot-democratization"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:16","slug":"2016-the-year-of-robot-democratization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/2016-the-year-of-robot-democratization","title":{"rendered":"2016 \u2013 The Year of Robot Democratization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2016-the-year-of-robot-democratization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The things we need to know for the 2016 robotic experience \u2014 robot clusters, manufacturing &amp; logistics, food &amp; healthcare, A3 Mexico Coming Soon and robotics integration.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bold predictions for <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1AF9yj0\" target=\"_blank\">Collaboration, Connectivity and Convergence<\/a> rang in 2015. One industry insider even called them prescient. Looking back a year later, we see the five-year forecast materializing faster than expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1SBws8K\" target=\"_blank\">Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT)<\/a> is more than a buzzword. With drones taking to the skies and autonomous <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Jp6se5\" target=\"_blank\">robots navigating our warehouses, local eateries, hotels<\/a>, hospitals, and stores, and soon our roadways \u2013 the differences between industrial, collaborative, and service robots continue to blur. No longer are robots reserved for multinational conglomerates or the rich eccentric with a sweet tooth for high-tech toys. SMEs and your average homeowner can now join the party. Sensors, software, and hardware are getting smarter and cheaper. We\u2019re democratizing robotics for the masses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ltAzFy\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s taken longer than some had hoped<\/a>. But we\u2019re approaching the tipping point for many automation technologies. We\u2019re envisioning a world where <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QdalSC\" target=\"_blank\">robots will help the elderly and infirm with everyday tasks<\/a>, so they can live independently longer. We\u2019re moving closer to Asimov\u2019s robots and to the \u201cmobile, sensate robot\u201d Engelberger anticipated. It\u2019s the paradigm shift foretold by visionaries past and present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotics.org\/content-detail.cfm\/Industrial-Robotics-Industry-Insights\/2016-The-Year-of-Robot-Democratization\/content_id\/5908\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things we need to know for the 2016 robotic experience \u2014 robot clusters, manufacturing &amp; logistics, food &amp; healthcare, A3 Mexico Coming Soon and robotics integration. Bold predictions for Collaboration, Connectivity and Convergence rang in 2015. One industry insider even called them prescient. Looking back a year later, we see the five-year forecast materializing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,1506,1495,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-food","category-health","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56234,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions\/56234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}