Canadian Equipment Finance Fall 2019 IssueRobotics

Robotics: Who Owns the Data?

By Brendan Read Data is money. It can be used to sell, cross-sell and upsell, like for equipment, add-ons, repairs, service plans and lease renewals. Data also can be sold to third parties. The growing popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT), which collects vast quantities of valuable data from …

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Canadian Equipment Finance Fall 2019 IssueRobotics

Are you financing robots? You Will Be. And should Be.

By Brendan Read Robots are taking over the world. Just ask Alexa, or any other virtual assistant. Or when you get into your car: a fair amount of it has been built by their assembly-line “cousins”. According to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) (www.robotics.org), part of the Association for Advancing …

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