In Episode 156 of The Robotic Report Podcast, editors Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman focus on the information of the week.
On this episode, we get into the small print behind Jacobi Robotics’ new industrial robotics robotic management structure with co-founder and CEO Max Cao.
Additionally on this episode, we characteristic a dialog between Jake Corridor, the “Manufacturing Millennial,” and Jan Hennecke, product supervisor at igus.
Present timeline
- 7:55 – Information
- 29:03 – Interview with Max Cao, co-founder and CEO of Jacobi Robotics
- 1:07:04 – Interview by Jake Corridor, the “Manufacturing Millennial,” and Jan Hennecke, product supervisor at igus
Within the information this week
- Right here’s what it might value to rent a Digit humanoid
- Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson gave us a fast peek behind the scenes for Digit whereas talking at a tech convention this week. The appliance is a “small fleet” of humanoids at the moment deployed at a Spanx facility in Flowery Department, Ga. Digit picks up totes from cell robots and locations the totes onto conveyors. The robotic can then decide up empty or totes, in addition to decide up totes from both the underside or prime shelf of a cell robotic.
- She stated Agility Robotics is at the moment charging a “absolutely loaded $30 per hour” for its humanoid. She stated the return on funding (ROI) for purchasers is below two years. It’s unlikely Digit is working 24 hours a day, twelve months a 12 months. But when it was, that may value $262,800 per robotic per 12 months. For a 40-hour work week, it might value about $62,400 to run Digit for a 12 months.
- Digit is the 2024 RBR50 Robotic of the 12 months.
- Skild AI grabs $300M to construct a basis mannequin for robotics
- Skild AI emerged from stealth mode and introduced that it has closed a $300 million Sequence A spherical. The corporate is creating the Skild Mind, a robotics basis mannequin, in addition to a cell manipulation platform and a quadruped platform for safety and inspection. It joins corporations comparable to OpenAI, Covariant, and NVIDIA which are trying to construct a basis mannequin that may be utilized to a number of functions, regardless of the mechanical design of the mechanism. Versus vertically designed robots which are constructed for particular functions, Skild’s AI mannequin would function a shared, general-purpose mind for a various embodiment of robots, situations, and duties, together with manipulation, locomotion, and navigation.
- Helm.ai launches VidGen-1 generative video mannequin for autonomous autos and robots
- The corporate lately launched VidGen-1, a generative AI mannequin that it stated produces practical video sequences of driving scenes. Helm.ai beforehand introduced GenSim-1 for AI-generated and labeled pictures of autos, pedestrians, and highway environments for each predictive duties and simulation. Acknowledged Vladislav Voroninski, co-founder and CEO of Helm.ai: “Producing practical video sequences of a driving scene represents probably the most superior type of prediction for autonomous driving, because it entails precisely modeling the looks of the true world and consists of each intent prediction and path planning as implicit sub-tasks on the highest stage of the stack.”
Hyperlinks from the present
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