In Episode 152 of The Robotic Report Podcast, editors Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman talk about the information of the week. Our featured visitor on the present this week is Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO of Chef Robotics.
Bhageria takes us via the inception of the corporate and the way he has damaged down the assorted workflows within the industrial kitchen. Chef Robotics is concentrated on meals manufacturing, deploying automation to the duties of filling ready-to-cook, ready meals with particular person meals objects.
The second characteristic on the present at present is an interview hosted by Meaghan Ziemba, host of Experts of Manufacturing and Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and chief of operations at MassRobotics. This interview occurred reside on the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston.
Ziemba and Sidopoulos talk about the Girls in Robotics Breakfast on the Robotics Summit and the MassRobotics Jumpstart program. which helps native highschool ladies to find a profession in excessive tech and robotics. In addition they chat about how MassRobotics is supporting the regional robotics startup ecosystem.
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Within the information this week
Robotics investments high $466M in April 2024
Robotics investments reached at the very least $466 million in April 2024, the results of 36 funding rounds. The April investments determine lagged current months and was the smallest quantity since November 2023. Final month’s funding complete was considerably lower than the trailing 12-month common of $1.1 billion.
Collaborative Robotics’ $100 million Collection B spherical was April’s largest funding. As its title implies, the California-based agency is growing collaborative robots and enabling software program for his or her use. China’s Rokae, a supplier of collaborative and industrial robots, secured $70 million in April.
As with earlier months, corporations positioned within the U.S. and China acquired the biggest funding quantities, $239 million and $115 million, respectively. Corporations primarily based within the U.S. (14) and China (9) additionally acquired nearly all of the spherical.
Sonair sensor launch
The Norwegian-based sensor firm decloaked this week to announce the supply of analysis kits for its new ultrasonic sensor.
Sonair is making an attempt to disintermediate the protection lidar market with a brand new obstacle-detecting sensor.
Tangram Imaginative and prescient creates lidar comparability software
In the event you’re looking for a lidar sensor so as to add to your robotic, Tangram Imaginative and prescient needs to make your analysis course of less complicated. The startup, which is constructing software program and {hardware} for robotic notion, launched an interactive software known as “Spinning LiDAR Visualizer” that lets customers examine spinning lidar fashions.
Customers can examine 28 sensors from main producers reminiscent of Hesai, Ouster, Quanergy, RoboSense, and Velodyne. The visualizer permits them to pick one or two sensors to investigate and examine most vary, vary at 10% reflectivity, angular decision, and area of view. You may click on and drag for various viewpoints, embed the software some place else, and even modify it on GitLab.