ThrowForward Thursday 139: Robot Window Washers
Graeme Codrington's Future of Work
English - February 29, 2024 21:20 - 4 minutes - 8.81 MBManagement Business Careers disruption futureofwork futurist change futuretrends graemecodrington leadership learning Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It's not a horror movie, with spider-like robots clambering around the outside of buildings. This is the future of the $40 billion window cleaning industry, using robots. They can do more than clean, though - they do real-time, ongoing analysis of the external skin of the buildings, keeping a record of issues and greatly enhancing preventative maintenance.
This is just one example of the potential of predictive data analytics when applied to real world objects that are instrumented and analysed. How might you be able to these data analytic ideas to your business?