Science-fiction movies and stories have always been the inspiration for technological innovations. Since the creation of the first robot, robot software is tremendously evolved and now it is aimed at developing artificial intelligence (AI) driven robots. In the simplest term, a robot is a machine interacting with physical things with software at its core. Software and robot work hand in hand, which means robots cannot perform any task without coded computer commands. Such a set of commands are called robot software.

Cloud Robotics is a term that was popularized by James Kuffner after he brought together researchers from different relevant fields (robotics, machine learning, and computer vision) to assist in coming up with the initial Cloud Robotics concept. Cloud robotics, as the name suggests is bringing together cloud computing and robotics. In essence, taking all the benefits of cloud computing and finding ways to apply them to robot software and robotics. The past couple of years have established cloud computing as the technology of now and the future. In 2017, spending on cloud services was $153.5bn, and this is expected to rise by 21.1% in 2018 to $184.4bn.

In three different facilities spread across America, Tesla's TSLA, -4.93% robot-manufacturing prowess is about to show its worth. If Musk -- who, to his credit, is building rockets that can land already -- can accomplish his accelerated ambitions for automated manufacturing, Tesla would at least own a piece of the pipeline over Apple AAPL, -0.47%.