The Future of Commercial Robots
TRC is transforming the world of commercial robots…!
Introducing the Commercial Personal Robot™ or CPR™
A Commercial Personal Robot™, or CPR™, is a multipurpose commercial robot whose intelligence and functionality can be enhanced and extended by using cloud services and a variety of interchangeable software applications (apps). A CPR will have a longer useful lifespan simply by being able to install different apps for different purposes and changing circumstances; this will result in a greater return on investment for the initial hardware purchase.
How Is TRC’s CPR Better? Click Here…
One of TRC’s primary advantages and core differentiators over our competitors is that our line of robots is not being built by only a single manufacturer; instead, we will license our development platform (the CPR-Platform™), the CPR-OS™, and our modular hardware architecture to many OEM’s (large and small) around the world. These OEM’s will all share TRC’s deployment platform including TRC’s CPR Robot App Store™ while competing with differentiated hardware, addon plug-and-play accessories, and custom UI/UX. These OEM’s will be able to produce many versions of the mass market CPR that will all run the same CPR-Apps™; this is similar to mobile device OEM’s in today’s market that produces smartphones and tablets that can all use the same apps.
By uncoupling hardware development from application software development, the TRC Commercial Personal Robot will be dramatically changing the economic model for individuals and teams wanting to develop and deploy robot solutions for business and commercial purposes. This includes entrepreneurs, systems integrators, 3rd party developers, and enterprise ICT (information and communication technology) departments. Since the CPR-Platform provides plug-and-play integration between hardware and software, a robot solution conceived by software developers will no longer require the high cost of hardware development to launch and support the product.
Keep in mind that ICT groups rarely, if ever, build their own hardware for their cloud or data center; we shouldn’t expect them to build robots to deliver a commercial robot to the business. Using TRC’s platform of API’s for robot and cloud services plus an SDK for plug-and-play hardware accessories, software developers will be able to create powerful robot solutions without having to build the robot.
This is why TRC’s slogan is: “We build the Robot. You build the App!™ “
What is a Robot? Click Here…
A robot can be considered to be an extension of the ICT infrastructure that extends the digital world of information and process into the physical real-world within we live. A robot has the ability to interact with its environment based on inputs and conditions. With modern AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning, a robot may have progressive improvements to intelligence capabilities and functional flexibility. As such, a robot has certain defining characteristics; for example: (1) it can move around without being carried, like you have to do with a tablet (motility vs. mobility); (2) it can collect and analyze sensor data including audio, video, ultrasound, and more; (3) it can have wireless network communications capability; and (4) it can have actuators to manipulate physical objects.
Two Types of Robot: Industrial and Non-Industrial
In the Industrial Sector, the terms robot and robotic are interchangeable; they usually apply to devices in factory automation settings. Non-industrial robots, however, are robots outside of the factory automation setting; they include such devices as autonomous vehicles, robot vacuums, UAV’s (drones), aquatic robots, process automation robotic devices in commercial settings like a hamburger flipper or remote surgeon, and the generic category of commercial robots.
What is a Commercial Robot?
A commercial robot is a non-industrial robot that interacts with people in a commercial or business environment. There are tens of thousands of commercial robots on the market today. But, the vast majority of commercial robots are single-purpose machines, often completely autonomous or completely remote controlled. They include: (1) cleaning robots like robot vacuums; (2) telepresence robots that enable a remote operator to engage in video conferencing while using its motility to move around the environment; (3) utility and service robots that do special functions like “Last Mile Delivery” (packages and food); (4) social robots like Softbank’s Pepper; and (5) multipurpose robots that are developed on platforms with APIs or SDKs to support third-party software development, such as TRC’s CPR.
There is a handful of multipurpose robots on the market today, but not one of them matches the flexibility and continuity of the TRC CPR. Not only is TRC providing a flexible and affordable robot that addresses today’s commercial market demands, but our global ecosystem will also provide continuity for development, deployment, and support not seen elsewhere. And the most important differentiator of the CPR-Platform when compared to the handful of robot manufacturers with APIs, is that many OEMs will use the CPR-Platform to build CPRs. This is the difference between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android approach to the smart device market and explains why Android ships on over 85% of all new smartphones.