G-50 Global Smart City Summit Gets View TRC’s Prototype Commercial Personal Robot™

April 6, 2018, Santa Clara, CA USA: The G-50 Global Smart City Summit brought together mayors, city administrators, and I.T./ICT professionals to share best practices and insights. TRC was one of a small group of companies demonstrating technologies that extend the reach of information and communications technology to support the needs of the smart city as they find ways to increase the quality of life for their citizenry. For the first time, TRC publically demonstrated their prototype Commercial Personal Robot™ or CPR™. A CPR is a Cloud-connected robot that provides services to support business, education, government services like medical facilities and police departments, and many other utilities or services provided by enterprise and smart cities, with a very important difference from the average commercial robot. A CPR can be upgraded with new robot apps, connections to Cloud-based information and services, and can be repurposed with new software as the robot’s owner’s needs change. It is a multi-purpose robot that may run multiple robot apps and be used for many tasks, unlike the vast majority of today’s commercial robots. The other major advantage of a CPR is that the cost to develop a robot app with it is simply in the software. Naturally, city administrators, who are responsible for the financial management of their projects, we’re pleased to have a new approach to bring new services delivered by robots to their constituency.