From Businessweek: Dmitry Grishin, CEO of Russian e-mail and social networking
giant Mail.ru, has an elaborate wedding fantasy. He sees robotic drones flying
around the guests and snapping their every move from every angle. “People today
have very standard pictures,” Grishin says. “If you have drones, you can attach
a camera and make very nice and different movies and pictures.” Add some
bartender robots, and you get quicker refills, too.
On Friday, Grishin, 33, declared his intentions to fund a
robotics revolution. He’s going to set up an investment company—Grishin
Robotics—in New York, backed by $25 million of his dollars, that will look out
for startups doing promising robotics work. Grishin intends to focus on
consumer, as opposed to industrial robotic, applications. ”I think it’s very
important to bring robotics to the mass market,” Grishin says. “Huge innovation
will only come when people see the results in their everyday lives….”
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