Finding Use Cases for Robotics

Space we addressed to help make it clear.  This does a good job.  Note eight forms mentioned, Small excerpt.

Find The Right Use Cases For Your Robots in Forrester.

Paul Miller, VP, Principal Analystas

June 22, 2023

Among other achievements Melonee Wise founded Fetch Robotics, and until recently she was VP of robotics automation at Zebra Technologies. I spoke to her during my early research for the automation triangle, and one of her passing comments stuck. She described physical automation (robots) as “a task replacer, not a people replacer.” Well, quite. Once you realise that, and accept that a general-purpose robot really doesn’t exist, you start to think more sensibly about the ways in which robots can (and cannot) be introduced into specific workflows.

My latest report, Focus On The Use Case When Evaluating Physical Automation, does just that, and I’ll be providing more detail in a client webinar on 14 September.

The report discusses six broad classes of task ripe for automation (assembling, painting, picking, delivering, tending, and inspecting). It also highlights pros and cons associated with eight forms of physical automation (industrial robots, cobots, automated guided vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, robotic dogs, drones, exoskeletons, and humanoid robots). Despite all the depressing marketing froth about ‘autonomous’ machines, the report also shows how little of this market is really autonomous yet (or soon): I will definitely be returning to that theme.... ' 

Some Key Uses for BlockChain

Nicely done use cases, not much detail, but a start.

Blockchain, Unchained: 5 Key Use Cases   By Joe McKendrick | November 11, 2020 in RtInsights

To achieve success with blockchain, PwC advises proponents to focus on collaboration beyond the walls of their enterprises. ...

Blockchain adoption is on the rise. “Serious activity around blockchain is cutting through every industry across the globe right now,” says Steve Davies, partner and blockchain leader for PwC UK. “It’s driven by an acute need to win trust in the digital world. Businesses are rethinking their operations and are discovering not only is blockchain technology key to delivering trust, but it’s an opportunity open to all.”  ... 

Davies summed up the findings of PwC’s latest report on blockchain in business, which estimates the technology ultimately boosting the global gross domestic product by $1.76 trillion over the next decade. Its applications extend well beyond cryptocurrencies, streamlining processes “by consolidating records, automatically, online. This spells an end to inefficient paper trails, reducing the related risk of manual error and oversight, and the reputational damage that can follow.”

The PwC report identified the five key use cases for blockchain:    ... "