In Episode 155 of The Robotic Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman focus on the information of the week.
On immediately’s episode, we meet up with Oana Jinga, co-founder, Chief Industrial and Product Officer for Dexory to be taught all in regards to the Dexory warehouse stock administration answer.
Additionally on this episode, we function a dialog between editorial director Gene Demaitre and Garret Place, Enterprise Growth 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 Garret Place, Enterprise Growth for robotic notion at ifm.
Within the information this week
- Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid lands first official job
- The corporate immediately 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 business’s first formal business deployment of humanoids and the primary RaaS deployment of such robots.
- Waymo ends waitlist, opens robotaxi service to all in San Francisco
- Beginning immediately, 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, almost 300,000 folks, together with those that dwell, work, and go to San Francisco, have signed as much as trip 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 offers riders entry to abandon points of interest, golf programs, and downtown locations such because the Mesa Arts Middle and Pioneer Park.
- Robotics investments drive previous $2.1B in Could
- Robotics investments for Could 2024 topped $2.1 billion, the results of funding for 38 corporations.
- The $2.1 billion is the best month-to-month funding quantity for the 12 months 2024 and tremendously exceeds the trailing 12-month common of $1.2 billion.
- Robotics funding by Could 2024 totals roughly $5.7 billion.
- Largest haul: Sensor producer Wayve introduced a $1.05 billion Collection C funding spherical led by SoftBank Group, with contributions from new investor NVIDIA and current investor Microsoft, to speed up its mission to reimagine autonomous mobility by 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).