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Robots A Growth Opportunity For BlackBerry — But ‘Still Early Days’ For Humanoids

Warehouse robots are already moving goods, picking orders and packing shipments. Humanoid robots? Not so fast.
BlackBerry CEO John Giamatteo says robotics presents a significant future opportunity for the company’s QNX software, particularly in supply chains, industrial automation and medical devices.
But while some of those applications are becoming more established, he describes humanoids as “still early days.”
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