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>I have not seen good examples of companies successfully deploying robotic systems in low-margin, public-facing settings. — Matt Beane, University of California, Santa Barbara

Me neither, which has kept me at the opposite end of the spectrum for decades.

To this day, good apps linger where it's still cheaper to use a human operator.

Going to build me a robot anyway, as soon as it's complete it'll be doing an invoiceable job.

That's a key.

So it starts making money right away, admittedly not as much as having a human performing its tasks.

Human's going to have to fill in when the robot is down anyway, plus serve the robot instead at intervals when it is running, just to keep it fully supplied and maintained.

So it's going to require a higher-skilled human than before.

That won't be cheap but I can then sell the higher skilled output for a better premium to clients most interested in the robot.