Office-ready robots are entering the channel. The dealers who learn the service model early get the better shot.
It wasn’t our first rodeo. It was our second.
The May 13 webinar with Keith Garrett from Pudu Robotics, Greg Walters with The Continuum hosted by the lovely Queen of the Webinar, Patricia Ames of The Imaging Channel, gave copier dealers a clearer view of where office-ready robots fit inside the channel.
Companies are spending heavily on Ai, then jamming it into the same old bureaucracy.
Why would one imprison an LLM/Ai inside a spreadsheet?
That is the trap.
The first wave of enterprise Ai is already taking a familiar shape: sales agents, marketing agents, finance agents, legal agents, HR agents, manager agents.
They are creating Ai in their own image: failure
By Celeste Dame | Celestial Sales Singularity
Xerox beside Aston Martin Aramco Formula One makes for an easy photograph. Racing green. Carbon fiber. Clean lighting. Expensive shoes on polished floors. The kind of place where nobody admits they once jammed a copier by feeding letterhead upside down.
Still, the partnership deserves more than a quick eye roll from the copier channel.
There is something useful happening under the shine.
Xerox is trying to change the room it gets invited into.
That sounds simple until you remember how long a name can drag its own history behind it. Xerox is one of the rare brands that escaped the product category and became common language. That kind of fame helped build the company, but fame ages strangely. It hardens. It turns into a museum tag if nobody refreshes the meaning behind it.
That job began for the United States in the Mediterranean.
Xerox has the old-king problem.
A once-commanding name gave away too much authority, got stripped down by market weather, watched its kingdom fracture, and now stands in the storm asking what power remains when ceremony, size, and reputation no longer protect you. That is Lear on the heath. The crown still means something, but only after the storm reveals what was real and what was theater.
For Xerox, the “storm” is the decline of print, the stock price, activist pressure, leadership turnover, the Fujifilm break, the Icahn years, and the Lexmark integration. The old court is gone. The robe is wet. The old script no longer works.
