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Despite not having commercialized their technology,autonomous passenger vehicle developers like Waymo,Cruise,Zoox and company have continued to amass enormous funding from the corporate and VC world,”said Rian Whitton,senior analyst at ABI Research.“Surgical robots also received huge funding,and have already been commercialized to a considerable extent,with Intuitive Surgical selling over 5,000 Da Vinci robot systems to date.”The localization of funds to a few specific sectors is down both to the anticipated effect of the technology and the relative market power of major auto manufacturers like Toyota,health companies like Johnson&Johnson and E-retailers such as Amazon.

“尽管技术尚未商业化，但Waymo、Cruise、Zoox等自动驾驶乘用车开发商仍在继续从公司和风投那里获得大量资金，”ABI Research高级分析师Rian Whitton说。“外科手术机器人也获得了巨额资金，并且已经在相当大的程度上实现了商业化，迄今为止，Intuitive Surgical销售了5,000多个达芬奇机器人系统。”资金在几个特定领域的本地化既取决于技术的预期效果，也要归功于像丰田这样的主要汽车制造商、像强生这样的健康公司以及像亚马逊这样的电子零售商的相对市场力量。