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At this very moment, there\u2019s someone working away in a factory somewhere in Shenzhen or at a manufacturing plant in Israel, or maybe even a facility in Gaithersburg, Md., prepping the assembly of one of the 10,000 robots that a small Israeli company wants to bring into the world this November.<\/p>\n
The Tel Aviv-based company, Roboteam<\/a>, has already made millions selling a\u00a0host of robots<\/a> to militaries around the world \u2014 and now they\u2019re tackling the consumer market.<\/p>\n But unlike its pack-mule, scout or bomb-removal bots, these new robots are going to be designed to help grandma bring out the tea and cookies (or crumpets for those across the pond).<\/p>\n The company has actually raised $50 million from\u00a0Fenghe Investment Group and from the group\u2019s famous co-founder, John Wu, the former venture capitalist turned Alibaba chief technology officer. Matt Hu, the group\u2019s co-founder and chief investment officer, also invested personally in the company.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a big bet on a company that\u2019s hoping to pivot from (admittedly really hardcore) military robots into a commercially viable product that the company\u2019s co-founder, Yossi Wolf, says will be the first to crack the home market successfully.<\/p>\n \u201cRoboteam defense is probably the number one provider of tactical robots in the world,\u201d says Wolf of the company\u2019s current business. \u201cWe\u2019re the only startup in Israel to penetrate the Pentagon [and] have generated over $100 million in revenue [with] thousands of systems right now and completing big programs of $1 billion around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the type of stuff that the company is making now.<\/p>\n