Robotics Quietly Found Its Market
Not homes. Warehouses, farms and factory floors
The robot in the kitchen never arrived. The robot in the warehouse did.\n\n## Where deployment is real\n\nLogistics, agriculture and precision manufacturing account for most commercial deployments, largely because the environments are structured and the labour math is clear.
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