WORLDTECHServe Robotics to launch Physical AI Services, a new robot connectivity and data business
Serve Robotics has announced, together with its third-quarter earnings, a new business line called Physical AI Services. The unit is intended to give customers access to the company's connectivity and data tools.
What the company announced
Serve Robotics disclosed the plan alongside its third-quarter earnings, according to TechCrunch. The new business line, named Physical AI Services, will offer customers the connectivity and data tools the company has developed.
The announcement positions the company's robotics technology as a service that other businesses could use, rather than only as hardware it operates itself.
The comparison with cloud computing
Serve Robotics has been described as aiming to become the Amazon Web Services of robots. Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing company based in Seattle and founded in 2006, and the comparison refers to its model of renting computing infrastructure to customers.
The reported headline frames the move in those terms, but the facts available do not specify pricing, customer commitments or how the service would be structured.
Open questions
- When Physical AI Services will become available to customers?
- Which customers the new business line is aimed at?