This week’s podcast highlights the agricultural robotics business, together with an interview with 4 Growers CEO Brandon Contino, and a recap of the 2023 FIRA ag robotics occasion.
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This week’s episode focuses closely on the agricultural robotics business. Cohost Mike Oitzman shares his insights from FIRA USA ag-robotics occasion in Salinas CA. At FIRA, the main ag robotics corporations demonstrated their options in stay demos the place the automobiles operated in actual fields with actual crops.
For our featured interview this week, we sit down with Brandon Contino, CEO and co-founder of 4 Growers, a startup constructing robots to reap meals grown in greenhouses. Brandon talks in regards to the technical and enterprise challenges associated to the robotic and the way specializing in greenhouses helps product evolution.
Episode timeline
13:43 FIRA USA replace with Mike Oitzman
27:40 Interview with Brandon Contino
Information of the week
Agility Robotics pronounces new “Robofab” 75K sq ft manufacturing facility in Corvalis OR.
The power will finally produce over 10,000 robots per 12 months
Clients who’re taking part within the Agility Associate Program (APP) can anticipate supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with common market availability in 2025.
TRI is utilizing Generative AI to show robots
TRI constructing Massive Habits Fashions – claiming it’ll be just like LLMs and what LLMs have completed for conversational AI
Human teaches the robots expertise by way of teleoperation; TRI’s AI coverage learns within the background and may have the ability down in a matter of hours
Over 60 expertise realized up to now, they’re hoping to have 1000 expertise realized by the tip of subsequent 12 months; A few of these expertise embrace pouring liquids, utilizing instruments and manipulating deformable objects.