Robotics - Economist - Analysis, Logistics.

Feature section on Robotics in Economist March 27, 2014.
Rise of Robots [Ecomomist]
Economist Robotics

Highlights:

Asking for help where a robot is helpless is perhaps feature and not a bug. Drones are not in as much military demand as one might think. Who will provide us our last human kindnesses?

Thoughts:

Opportunity for analytics? Amazon Kiva Union [Forbes]
Kiva

More succinctly analytics for Logistics Automation

For cleaning iRobot Roomba
For snow? Tuvie Roofus

For lawn? Robotic Lawn Mowers

Little mention of trade show robots as a tele-presence application.

Trade Show Robots [Wired]

Cimetrics Launches Analytika

Cimetrics just released the new analytics offering website - Analytika.
http://www.analytika.com/
With Analytika for buildings, cut energy usage and cost, improve comfort and performance, detect faults, and manage the workflow of any maintenance or improvements.
With Analytika for process, predictive analytics are utilized to provide early warning, actionable recommendations and supervisory control, before parameter drift causes quality problems, process disruptions and waste.

Picked up by media outlets:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cimetrics-inc-launches-analytika-145700352.html
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140212005852/en/Cimetrics-Launches-Analytika
http://automatedbuildings.com/releases/feb14/140212013404cimetrics.html

Cimetrics
http://www.cimetrics.com/