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This week’s episode focuses closely on the agricultural robotics trade. Cohost Mike Oitzman shares his insights from FIRA USA ag-robotics occasion in Salinas CA. At FIRA, the main ag robotics firms demonstrated their options in reside demos the place the autos operated in actual fields with actual vegetation.
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 ability will finally produce over 10,000 robots per 12 months
Prospects who’re collaborating within the Agility Accomplice Program (APP) can anticipate supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with normal market availability in 2025.
TRI is utilizing Generative AI to show robots
TRI constructing Giant Habits Fashions – claiming it’ll be just like LLMs and what LLMs have accomplished for conversational AI
Human teaches the robots abilities by means of teleoperation; TRI’s AI coverage learns within the background and may have the ability down in a matter of hours
Over 60 abilities realized up to now, they’re hoping to have 1000 abilities realized by the top of subsequent 12 months; A few of these abilities embrace pouring liquids, utilizing instruments and manipulating deformable objects.
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