Enterprises aren’t just building these capabilities Across industries, the proliferation of robots Finding the right way to integrate robots into for themselves, either. Boston Dynamics is gearing from the traditional controlled warehouse and organizations and the world includes challenges up to release its first commercially available robot manufacturing environments into the open world around talent, questions of human-computer for open-world use. “Spot” is a quadrupedal bot offers enormous opportunity. Increased customer interaction and a testbed that quite literally consists with a long robot arm, designed so that customers interaction, data collection and even branding of the whole world—with no boundaries or built-in can apply it to a range of use cases like pipeline opportunities will be possible, as limitations on fail-safes. Businesses with an existing robotics 20 inspection or 3D mapping construction sites. the physical services that companies can provide practice may start out with an advantage in the For now, Spot still needs human handlers to tell it in customers’ lives disappear. But capturing this robotics migration, but the opportunity is ripe for where to go. But the robot can function in open- opportunity will never be as simple as buying companies in every industry to extend their reach: world environments, keeping its balance on rough a robot and sending it out the door. beyond their controlled spaces, beyond their terrain and navigating mapped areas on existing employee and customer relationships, its own.21 and out into the open world. Experimentation with solutions like these today will give leaders a dramatic edge as technological advances make it possible to incorporate robots on city streets, university campuses and construction sites. Far outside the walls of the enterprise, machines are already contending with variable Across industries, the proliferation of robots operating conditions, densely human-populated from the traditional controlled warehouse spaces and even other autonomous devices. Companies that get started today will position and manufacturing environments into the themselves to take the lead as robot migration becomes a major driver of value and growth. open world offers enormous opportunity.