The robots are coming, and they are not just robo-advisers, driverless vehicles and assembly-line welders. What’s more, there are profits to be made by discerning investors.
Venture capital firms — including Playground Global, FoundersX Ventures, of Y Combinator and GV — are among the more than 40 VCs raising money from high-net-worth individuals and families and bankrolling a rising tide of robotics companies that are designing and manufacturing everything from autonomous drones and warehouse carts to vitamin size “pill cameras” and surgical assistants.
Peter Barrett of Playground Global pointed out to TechCrunch that one of the challenges with venture investing in the field is that robotics companies take much longer to mature and produce a liquidity event than your average technology play. Still, his firm
