Pushing the bounds of warehouse stock administration

In Episode 155 of The Robotic Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman focus on the information of the week.

On right this moment’s episode, we meet up with Oana Jinga, co-founder, chief business and product officer for Dexory to be taught all concerning the Dexory warehouse stock administration answer.

Additionally on this episode, we function 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 business 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

1. Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid lands first official job
   • The corporate right this moment signed a multi-year cope with GXO Logistics Inc., the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics supplier, to deploy its Digit humanoids in varied 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 beneath 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.
2. Waymo ends waitlist, opens robotaxi service to all in San Francisco
   • Beginning right this moment, 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 whole, practically 300,000 individuals, together with those that reside, 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 sights, golf programs, and downtown locations such because the Mesa Arts Middle and Pioneer Park.
3. Robotics investments drive previous $2.1B in Could
   • Robotics investments for Could 2024 topped $2.1 billion, the results of funding for 38 firms.
   • The $2.1 billion is the best month-to-month funding quantity for the yr 2024 and vastly exceeds the trailing 12-month common of $1.2 billion.
   • Robotics funding via 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 via 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 digicam robotic from Endiatx (Endiatx would be the featured closing keynote on the 2024 RoboBusiness occasion).