This document discusses the rise of service robots and the director's journey towards miniaturizing robots. It provides statistics on industrial and service robot markets and forecasts. In 3 sentences: The director discusses the growth of service robots since 2000 as compared to industrial robots since 1970, and his work developing increasingly smaller colonoscope, capsule endoscope, and intravascular robots down to the nanometer scale. Charts show the value and forecast of industrial, professional service, and personal service robot markets globally.