Robots for Hire: The Future of IoT

02/26/20 • 17 min

In this episode, we talk with Zach Boyd from Hirebotics a company that allows manufacturers to hire a robot for hourly work like they would an employee. Zach explores the ways that data and the Internet of Things (IoT) can be harnessed to provide proactive and preventative remote support and maintenance to their customers.

“We Cloud Connect our robot so that we can gain real-time insights into how that robot's performing, what problems it might have. And with that, we're able to 98% of the time, come to a resolution, identify that root cause and provide a fix from a mobile application that we've developed versus sending somebody on a plane to go help that customer.”

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“We went from a manufacturing age to a digital consumer age over the course of the last 15 years...I think the big change that really happened — the hardest part for both the wholesaler as well as the manufacturer to understand — is the end-user consumer is no longer calling that wholesale distributor to have a salesperson come visit them at their office or location and bring a catalog with different sell sheets to sell them on the value proposition of that manufactured good. They are now able to access all of that information at the point of their buying journey when they are at the point of awareness and then consideration and evaluation. They do that on the manufacturer's website because they wanna go straight to the source to understand truly the value in features and benefits of what that product is.”

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