October 17th, 2005

One day in the not-so-distant future, robot drones will drive the military’s supply vehicles through dangerous war zones. They’ll pilot tractors across farm fields and steer plows as they scrape snowy highways. Automatic cars will even whisk you to and from work.

High-tech entrepreneur Scott Jones, 44, believes with a zealot’s fervor this all will happen. More than a gee-whiz observer, the man who helped invent voice mail hopes to establish a robotic vehicle business—and ultimately the robotic vehicle industry—in Indiana.
But don’t expect it to happen automatically.

“There’s probably a dozen high-growth industries that will emerge during the next 20 years. This is absolutely one of them. And Indiana may not be better positioned for any of the other dozen,” Jones said. “We have to go and grab the brass ring. If we don’t, it will happen on the coasts, or it will happen in other countries like Germany and Japan.”

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