In Episode 158 of The Robotic Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman focus on the week’s information. You’ll additionally hear the State of Warehouse Automation panel that was one of many highlights from the Robotics Summit & Expo. An esteemed panel moderated by Eugene Demaitre, the dialogue featured Tim Tetzlaff, vice chairman, world head of accelerated digitalization at DHL Provide Chain; John Santagate, VP of robotics at Körber Provide Chain; and Adrian Stoch, chief automation officer at GXO. The group discusses greatest practices, rising tendencies, and the way the newest robotics improvements are serving to provide chain operators overcome main challenges.
The present’s second interview is the final in our sequence of interviews recorded through the Robotics Summit. Carlos Bielicki, VP of gross sales from Efficiency Movement Units, sat down with Chris Luecke of the Manufacturing Glad Hour.
Present timeline
- 8:45 – Information of the week
- 21:45 – State of Warehouse Automation Panel from the 2024 Robotics Summit
- 1:10:23 – Interview by the Manufacturing Glad Hour’s Chris Luecke of Carlos Bielicki VP of Gross sales from Efficiency Movement Units
Information of the week
Covariant Will get Takeover Inquiry From Amazon
Bloomberg reported on July 31 that Amazon is thinking about buying Covariant. Covariant was valued in 2023 at $625 million. Covariant CEO Peter Chen was a visitor on The Robotic Report Podcast in episode 135.
Autonomous autos gasoline $2.7B funding increase in June 2024
Forty-eight firms that make robots or related enabling applied sciences raised a complete of $2.7 billion in June 2024. At press time, this was the very best month-to-month funding complete of 2024. It exceeded Could’s complete by greater than $500 million and was greater than double the 12-month trailing investments common of $1.3 billion. Robotics investments for the primary six months of 2024 totaled about $8.4 billion.
The biggest investments had been, as soon as once more, raised by builders of autonomous driving applied sciences. San Francisco-based Cruise raised $850 million from proprietor GM because it restarts its on-road operations. Aptiv raised $816 million, Waabi $200 million, 42dot $185 million, and Tier IV $54 million. It ought to be famous that these 5 firms raised greater than $2.1 billion alone in June.
Robotics applied sciences for manufacturing operations additionally attracted substantial funding. Vibrant Machines attracted $126 million Collection C funding. GrayMatter Robotics, a supplier of an AI-powered resolution that permits robots to self-program, raised $45 million in Collection B funding. And Formic Applied sciences, a developer of turnkey robotic options as a service, raised $27.4 million in Collection A funding.
Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode
A Tesla Mannequin S automotive was in “Full Self-Driving” mode when it hit and killed a 28-year-old motorcyclist within the Seattle space in April, police stated, making it no less than the second deadly accident involving the know-how. The motive force was arrested on suspicion of vehicular murder based mostly on his admission that he was his mobile phone whereas utilizing the motive force assistant function.
The NHTSA started a probe of Autopilot in August 2021 after figuring out greater than a dozen crashes by which Tesla autos had hit stationary emergency autos and reviewed tons of of crashes involving Autopilot.
