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First:
John P. Desmond after Robobusiness 2008 Conference & Expo Event, expressed his opinion about VCs and Robotics because he thinks that connections are Few: "The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), for example, decided years ago that robotics would no longer be a category in its funding reports".
John P. Desmond is a contributing Editor to Robotics Trends. He can be reached at john_desmond@king-content.com
While another important executives in VC think that "The investment opportunities are few and far between. I've spent a lot of time looking for robotics investment opportunities. The military-funded companies are slow to develop and we are in the fast-to-develop business" (Stan Reiss of Matrix Partners, Waltham, Mass.- based VC company)
However, you can find out new start-up and enterprises that do not prefer be seen as robotic companies instead advanced researching centers: artificial vision or human language, sensor and advanced devices and so on, necessary to supply the robotic industry.
This enterprises can Return the investments more quickly than exclusively robotic companies, because the market for robots performing is too young and weak. Only military centers are now focused at 100% in this.
You can see www.robobusiness.com
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By now we can talk about figures showed by european and japanese executives in the last 2007 International Robot Exhibition. Managers from ABB and Toyota Researching and other more talked about number of robots currently enabled today in the industry (1 Million), what is the investment in R&D in their industries last years (Nearly 1 Billion $ each last three years with 6.000 researchers. [ABB figures]) , how much money and persons
(1 PERSON working in the manufacturing robot industry by 30 ROBOTS made and installed after all. 150.000 robots installed around the world. [Figures from ABB]) are necessary to improve and comercialize a robot in the market an so on.
In this way you can get a gauge the figures of this industry today.
http://www.irex2007.jp/ENG/Simultaneous.html
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