Robots mean business in Silicon Valley

The showroom floor of the first RoboBusiness Conference to be held in Silicon Valley, which is happening this week in Santa Clara, is alive with moving machines – autonomously directed mobile load carriers of various kinds, a one armed robot on wheels that can “see” where it’s going and dozens of roaming telepresence robots with the faces of remote operators from as far away as Egypt and India navigating the aisles and engaging in conversation with other attendants...