Advances in hardware and software technologies, ongoing academic research, and dramatic increases in robotics investment, have had the collective effect of enabling the successful development and deployment of practical, robust, commercial class robotics products, technologies and services in support of applications in a great number of industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, logistics and more. Their consumer equivalents, too, have come to market and found success.

Indoor Only
In the vast majority of cases, both the industrial and consumer systems are used in indoor environments, where the operational location is limited geographically, and the operational environment is relatively simple, static and unchanging. In many cases, the systems themselves are immobile.