There&#x27;s a group in Waterloo called LabForge who set up actual physical lab experiments for undergrads to interact with over the internet. I think they may have pivoted since then, but there&#x27;s a demo of it on YouTube:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5uveI-8BrZ4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5uveI-8BrZ4</a><p>I&#x27;m with a robotics company, and we&#x27;ve also periodically toyed with setting up &quot;robot playpen&quot; where you could log in, pay by the hour, and run your algorithms or whatever on actual hardware. The reality is, though, that for a lot of the interesting problems in robotics (perception, mapping, localization), a recorded dataset is more than enough, and for the rest (controls, guidance), a sufficiently high-fidelity simulation is better for development anyway.<p>By the time you&#x27;ve made all those software investments, you probably own hardware anyway, so the total market for an &quot;AWS of robots&quot; is probably not really all that large.