E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET.UUCP (02/28/87)
Artificial intelligence software generated $200 million dollars in revenue in 1986. Expert system tools generated 18.6 million. To put these numbers in perspective, the total software market is 12.3 billion and CAD/CAE software is 665 million. Also sold in 1986, was 464 million dollars worth of robot systems and 100 million dollars worth of vision equipment.