From military market to enterprise market, robot company ClearPath

According to WSJ News, Canadian robotics company ClearPath Robotics received 11.2 million dollars of new financing, by Rre Ventures, Inovia Capital investment. The company, which was founded in 2009, received 360,000 dollars of angel financing in 2010 and has since been profitable, with clients mainly military, school and educational institutions. This new financing is mainly used to expand corporate users.

The founders of ClearPath Robotics, who were studying at the University of Waterloo, created ClearPath Robotics, which initially developed mine-clearance robots to help clean up landmines in war-torn countries, but there was no way to control costs and risks. It turned out to be the production of unmanned vehicles and other equipment, has become the current unmanned systems research and development industry leader.

At present, ClearPath Robotics products mainly include: Husky unmanned ground vehicles, grizzly SUVs and Kingfisher unmanned surface warships. Husky and Grizzly are mainly used in military, agriculture and mining, Kingfisher unmanned surface warships are mainly used in marine research. The company doubled its sales in 2014 and expanded its staff to 85 people.

Although with the advent of Google unmanned cars, social robots jibo, people are increasingly concerned about consumer-level robots, but ClearPath Robotics believes that the C-end consumption is still in the early stage, the enterprise market at the moment more potential, so want to rely on years of technology accumulation, from a piece of it.

A particularly interesting trailer. Many people know ClearPath robotics, not because of their robot, but because of the recent Elon Musk triggered the "artificial intelligence moral" of the big discussion. At that time, ClearPath Robotics said that it would not be a "killing robot", the only company in the world claiming that it would never design a killing robot.