Electric Sheep Turns Old Lawnmowers Into Robots
The company’s success represents an important bellwether for robotics adoption. Technologies like commercial trucks and lawnmowers are inevitably going to operate autonomously, and much of the tech exists to begin the transition immediately for certain users. But the economics of replacing existing fleets won’t be viable right away. In the interim, enterprises are faced with the prospect of being out-innovated by competitors. Expect add-on autonomy, then, to become increasingly important, providing a linchpin between fully autonomous technology and old fleets that still have useful life left....