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Tips for Building and Deploying Robots


his post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and how to leverage those deployed robots for improving your product.

Fifteen years ago it made sense to have unique battery chemistries both for robot performance and for the regulatory requirements at the geographical point of deployment. It makes design a slightly different process, but one that rewards you handsomely in terms of lower BOM (Bill Of Materials) cost, and in stability of supply. It started to be deployed in hospitals to support the handheld devices supplied to doctors and nurses so they could record notes and data, but now patients and their visitors expect it too.

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