A rendering of Avidbots' Neo at an airport. That means the additional cost of a cleaning robot is some $35,000 before accounting for maintenance. Autonomous vehicles and robotic food-startups have captured the public's imagination, but cleaning robots have enormous, if unsexy, potential. The duo started building prototypes in China, at first taking the cheapest cleaning machines they could find and retrofitting them as robots. “By putting robots into the real world, we are changing the perception around robots,” Sheikh says.

Source: Forbes March 21, 2019 09:56 UTC