It's not Baymax nor Rosie. Robots are spreading in many sectors, from industry to enterprise and consumer. Presentation given in April 2017 at the Startup Launchpad in Hong Kong.

1. THE RISE OF
CONSUMER
&
SERVICE ROBOTS

2. World’s Leading Early Stage Investor
in Hardware Startups
Part of SOSV Venture Fund
$300 Million Under Management
#2 Global Seed Investor

3. SEED GROWTH
O TO 1 1 TO N
SHENZHEN
PrototypetoLaunch
SANFRANCISCO
ProducttoScale

4. CONSUMER
HEALTH
INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE

5. CHINA
201GlobalInvestments
EUROPE
USA &
CANADA
REST OF
WORLD

6. 80+ CAMPAIGNS | 90% ABOVE $100,000
11 AMONG WORLD’S TOP 100
NO.1 FROM AUSTRALIA
NO.1 FROM CANADA
NO.1 FROM FRANCE
NO.2 BY NUMBER OF BACKERS
“NO.1 INVESTOR IN
CROWDFUNDED HARDWARE”

7. WHERE ARE ROBOTS TODAY?

8. floor cleaning

9. window cleaning

10. lawn mower

11. ROBOTS ARE ENTERING
OUR HOMES TO DO MORE AND
MORE CHORES
#1

12. warehouse robot

13. Chinese version

14. Guangdong plans to spend US$137B to boost manufacturing & adoption of robotics.
Guangzhou hopes to automate 4/5th of industry jobs by 2020.

15. ROBOTS ARE REPLACING
WORKERS IN FACTORIES
#2

16. CONSUMER
HEALTH
INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE
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17. INDUSTRIAL
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18. FACTORY ROBOTS

19. ELEPHANT ROBOTICS is a low-cost industrial robot arm
with computer vision for factories and more. (a HAX company)

20. DESKTOP FABRICATION

21. FACTORY ROBOTS
ARE EXPANDING
BEYOND FACTORIES
#3

22. VOLTERA is a desktop prints and solders circuit board.
It accelerates the creation of electronics products. (a HAX company)

23. WAZER is the world’s first desktop waterjet cutter.
Cut anything including steel, titanium, glass or ceramic. (a HAX company)

24. KNITERATE is a desktop knitting robot
for the home.
Kniterate
(a HAX company)

26. CONSUMER
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27. (Not a HAX company)

28. KITCHEN TECH & PERSONAL FARMING

29. APPLIANCES
ARE ROBOTS TOO!
#4

30. BARTESIAN is the “Keurig for cocktails”.
Using fresh ingredient capsules to mix your favorite drinks. (a HAX company)

31. ORENDA helps you brew the perfect cup
of coffee by controlling temperature,
dilution and more. (a HAX company)

32. GROBO SMART GARDEN is the first indoor growing system
suitable for herbs, vegetable and medicinal plants
including medical marijuana. (a HAX company)

33. LIVIN FARMS is a home growing system
for edible insects. It sells home hives
and ento-food (insect-based food). (a HAX company)

34. PET TECH

35. (Not a HAX company)

36. BEETL advanced home robot cleans after your dog
(no website) (a HAX company)

37. 2011: $400,000
2017: $400
1/1000th!
#5

38. SPRITE ROBOTICS creates small, fast and smart indoor robotic systems.
Their first product is an intelligent mouse to play with your cat.
SPRITE ROBOTICS
(a HAX company)

40. SPORTS TECH

41. TRAINERBOT is a smart robot to train ping pong. (a HAX company)

44. Robots bring human skills
to the physical world,
like “real life MOOCs”
#6

45. EDU-TECH

46. MAKEBLOCK makes robotic kits
for automation, hobbyists and education.
Products are sold worldwide. (a HAX company)

47. FLASH ROBOTICS makes robotic assistants
for language acquisition.
http://www.flash-robotics.com/ (a HAX company)

49. Robots can
teach and train
our bodies and minds
#7

50. ENTERPRISE
www.hax.co

51. Robots will replace more
dirty/dangerous/repetitive
tasks
#8

52. DELIVERY

53. CARRIE is a ground-based robot for last-mile deliveries. (a HAX company)

55. INVENTORY

56. SIMBE ROBOTICS is a robotics-based retail analytics company.
It created Tally, the first shelf inventory robot, using advanced computer
vision to audit shelves in real time. Currently piloting at Target. (a HAX company)

58. COMMERCIAL CLEANING

59. AVIDBOTS autonomous robots scrub commercial floors. (a HAX company)

60. Security robot at
Shenzhen airport
(Not a HAX company)

61. WINDOW CLEANING

62. PLECOBOT is a window-cleaning robot
for the outside of office buildings. (a HAX company)

64. PAINTING PARTS

65. RATIONAL ROBOTICS robots paint auto parts
perfectly and automatically.

66. ALL-TERRAIN TRANSPORT & SURVEILLANCE

67. ROVENSO makes heavy-duty agile robotic rovers
for rough terrains and remote intervention. (a HAX company)

69. 3 MONTHS EARLIER…

70. HEALTH
www.hax.co
March 2017 - Confidential

71. BIONICS

72. JAPET makes active and connected
braces for back pain
www.japet.eu (a HAX company)

74. Robots help health,
including surgery, recovering
and assisted living
#9

75. Robots are spreading.
They don’t look like humans.
They compete, complement or enhance
us, like technology has always done.
This is the age of AI robots!
SUMMARY
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