February 23, 2009, Santa Barbara, CA - The state of today's robotics is as a key transformative technology comparable to the introduction of the personal computer.
Robo-Stox is a listing of a segment of the robotics industry whose ownership is publically traded on the world's stock markets. Currently the index, when compared to NASDAQ, shows that industrial robotics stocks have suffered by their affinity with the auto industry and with the economy in general. Service robotics (the sector focused on assisting people at work and in their daily lives at home) has also suffered with few exceptions: defense-related and medical/surgical. In fact, there are less than five stocks worldwide which have bucked the overall downward spiral. Details can be found at The Robot Report.
Nevertheless, the current state of the business and the technology have sufficiently progressed to enable an increasing number of semi-autonomous robotic solutions in the areas of healthcare, national infrastructure and resource management, security, transportation, logistics and education.
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