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Robotics as a Service: Automation Without Capital Investment

Podcast: SmartKeys Podcast · SmartKeys

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

Episode 405: Renting the Machine 🔗 Read the full article here: https://smartkeys.org/robotics-as-a-service/ In this episode of the SmartKeys podcast, we explore the financial and operational transformation rewriting industrial automation: Robotics as a Service (RaaS). For decades, adopting industrial automation required companies to write massive, paralyzing capital expenditure checks—paying hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars upfront before producing a single unit of output. Today, RaaS collapses that upfront capital barrier by converting hardware, software, deployment, and ongoing maintenance into a predictable operating expense. Based on the research guide by Felix Römer, w...