How looking for an investment opportunity in robotics lead to developing a tracking index for the robotics industry w/Frank Tobe

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Frank Tobe shares his experience from covering robotics in The Robot Report and creating the index Robo-Stox. Frank Tobe is the owner and publisher of The Robot Report. After selling his business and retiring from 25+ years as a provider of computer direct marketing and consulting to the Democratic National Committee, major presidential and other campaigns and initiatives, he has energetically pursued a new career in researching and investing in robotics. In 2013 he co-founded Robo-STOX™ LLC (renamed in 2015 to ROBO-Global) and developed a tracking index for the robotics industry: the ROBO-Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. Frank talks about how and why he shifted to robotics and how looking for an investment opportunity in robotics lead him to start ROBO Global, a robotics focused index company. Both companies have given Frank a unique perspective on the robotics scene as a whole, over a significant period of time, and we are pleased that he wanted to share some of his insights from that with us.

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