In Episode 155 of The Robotic Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman talk about the information of the week.
On as we speak’s episode, we meet up with Oana Jinga, co-founder, chief industrial and product officer for Dexory to study all concerning the Dexory warehouse stock administration resolution.
Additionally on this episode, we characteristic a dialog between editorial director Gene Demaitre and Garrett Place, enterprise improvement for robotic notion at ifm.
Present timeline
6:24 – Information
21:29 – Interview with Oana Jinga, co-founder, chief industrial and product officer for Dexory.
53:06 – Interview by Gene Demaitre with Garrett Place, enterprise improvement for robotic notion at ifm.
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Within the information this week
Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid lands first official job
The corporate as we speak signed a multi-year cope with GXO Logistics Inc., the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics supplier, to deploy its Digit humanoids in numerous logistics operations.
GXO stated it’s commercially deploying a “small fleet” of Digit robots at a Spanx facility in Connecticut. The logistics supplier is paying Agility Robotics underneath a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) mannequin.
The businesses didn’t reveal what number of humanoids Spanx is utilizing or specifics of their RaaS settlement. They claimed that that is each the trade’s first formal industrial deployment of humanoids and the primary RaaS deployment of such robots.
Waymo ends waitlist, opens robotaxi service to all in San Francisco
Beginning as we speak, anybody in San Francisco can hail a robotaxi utilizing Waymo LLC’s app. The corporate has been working within the metropolis for years now, slowing scaling its operations. In complete, practically 300,000 individuals, together with those that stay, work, and go to San Francisco, have signed as much as experience for the reason that firm first opened its waitlist.
Earlier this month, it expanded its service in Phoenix, its largest service space. The corporate added 90 sq. miles (233 sq. km) to what was already its largest service space in metropolitan Phoenix.
Waymo stated its riders can now hail Waymo One service throughout 315 sq. miles (815.8 sq. km) of the Valley. The expanded service space covers extra of Scottsdale’s resorts and expands to downtown Mesa, Ariz. This provides riders entry to abandon points of interest, golf programs, and downtown locations such because the Mesa Arts Heart and Pioneer Park.
Robotics investments drive previous $2.1B in Might
Robotics investments for Might 2024 topped $2.1 billion, the results of funding for 38 corporations.
The $2.1 billion is the very best month-to-month funding quantity for the yr 2024 and tremendously exceeds the trailing 12-month common of $1.2 billion.
Robotics funding by way of Might 2024 totals roughly $5.7 billion.
Largest haul: Sensor producer Wayve introduced a $1.05 billion Sequence C funding spherical led by SoftBank Group, with contributions from new investor NVIDIA and present investor Microsoft, to speed up its mission to reimagine autonomous mobility by way of embodied intelligence.
Honorable mentions:
Farmwise with a $10M sequence B
Pickle Robots with $15M sequence B
Hyperlinks from the present:
Startups: signup for the Pitchfire competitors at RoboBusiness 2024 (Deadline August 9, 2024).
Watch the YouTube video the place Adam Savage swallows a digital camera robotic from Endiatx (Endiatx would be the featured closing keynote on the 2024 RoboBusiness occasion).