I know nothing about ADRs, I just suspect investing in Soft Bank will be good bet. Would be interesting to know more about who is heavily invested in SB.
When I get a chance, I shall go over to my local S store at nearby Mall and run some of my Iots ideas pass their staff. Might be also useful to talk to some other potential competitors in the field?
If SB actually manufactures their smart robots in USA, they should be able to sell say 10-20K no problem. Nursing facilities, fast foods, and greeters at store entrances would be logical first users.
IF SB uses S store as demo sites, and nearby small businesses and malls where S staff can watch over the robots and study how to improve them, this type of business venture could be upgraded to S staffed tech trucks that work with local home health care workers as home companions for disabled and elderly.
The first tiny USA-based robotics companies in the 1960s just seem to look at first generation robots as toys. They, in effect, dropped the ball . . . as AI and software were hardly suitable then for private/public uses.
SB moving so aggressively into USA with huge backup financing and tactful support of new administration, is going to be hard act to
compete with? SB is not afraid to fail and learn from it quickly.
SB is first real retail firm that is taking public use robots as product potential. USA is currently in status of college grant studies and quite small companies focusing on public-use robots.
Wait until some major burger chain places a robots order.
Just imagine being in line at say a bank or movie house, and robot takes your business order and taps out a ticket for you. Family
centric appeal might just draw in customers? And, robot could also give out ads and menus and local business coupons.
Or, how about getting children robot conscious at kindergartens and becoming moving lessons for kids to learn to key-tap and say voice answers too? Early childhood education is confusing to young folks, and would be more in-spy-er-ing if you wanted to go the next day to talk and interact with neutral learning source.
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