Robots Uncaged: How Smart Machines Will Change Business

New kinds of robots are helping companies across a wide range of industries support workers, assist shoppers, engage customers, and perform many other tasks. Industry has used robots for decades. They were once confined to safety cages in manufacturing facilities, programmed to perform one task perfectly over and over again. Their purpose was to make high volumes of goods more quickly and cheaply. But advances in technologies are springing robots from their cages, liberating them to work in new roles, in new industries, and with new benefits.