#robo $ROBO One of the biggest challenges currently facing the robotics industry is "fragmentation." Each manufacturer has its own control system, data format, and interaction logic, much like the early mobile phone market, where various brands were incompatible.

Jan Liphardt, in an interview with @BloombergTV, discussed how software will reshape the future of social robots and home robots. He believes that the real breakthrough is not in producing hardware of various shapes, but in making these hardware able to become smarter and easier to develop through a unified platform.