NI pursues robot revolution

摘要

National Instruments is moving aggressively to support the "robot revolution" with its announcement of LabView Robotics 2009, which provides a standard development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems. With the new release, the company hopes to capitalize on what it forecasts is a burgeoning market for robots, including the fact that one-third of US military vehicles must be autonomous by 2015, representing a $52 billion market. Further, the educational-robotics market will reach $1.96 billion by 2014. And, by 2012, service robots for professional use will increase 78%, service robots for household use will increase 109%, and robots for entertainment and leisure will increase 239%.