CHRONICLING THE ROBOT INDUSTRY
SINCE 2011 © ROBOT RABBI
Last month, private equity giant Blackstone Group announced the acquisition of Colony Capital for $5.9 billion, a deal that encompasses 60 million square feet of warehouse space across 465 facilities. Blackstone is reported to manage now over $250 billion worth of property worldwide, and the Colony purchase comes on the … Read More
While Jeff Bezos has yet to grow a white beard, or gain 300 lbs, Amazon is the closest we will get to Santa’s workshop. The Northpole might not be as functional as the 80 worldwide fulfillment centers that this merry-man has under his belt. The 100,000 plus employees are being … Read More
While most of the electronic press was at CES, 60 minutes did a 13 minute segment on robots replacing human jobs in this ongoing recession. While this argument has been made as conjecture on the campaign trail, Steve Kroft enforced the point with the credibility of two MIT professors… http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf CBS News … Read More
Sometimes it is what people say that is so profound vs. their inventions. In the video below iRobot founder, Rodney Brooks, makes a salient point that just like personal computing in the next two decades robots will be everywhere. You may recall that computers pre-Gates/Jobs were in a locked room … Read More
