Episode 204 of The Robotic Report Podcast options friends Jan Zizka from Brightpick and Charlie Kemp from Whats up Robotic.
Zizka, CEO of Brightpick, explains the technical challenges that led to the Giraffe warehouse robotic. He explains how the corporate’s group tackled the complexities of designing a two-stage telescoping robotic that maintains stability and effectivity in high-density environments.
Find out about Brightpick’s improvements to beat logistical hurdles, such because the compact design of Giraffe for straightforward transport and set up, in addition to the strategic use of parallel actions to optimize warehouse operations. Be a part of us as we comply with the trail from idea to actuality for Giraffe.
The dialog with Kemp, co-founder and chief know-how officer of cell manipulator developer Whats up Robotic, is from a stay interview from the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo present flooring with editor Eugene Demaitre.
Present timeline
- 07:35 – Information of the week
- 23:25 – Interview with Charlie Kemp, co-founder and CTO of Whats up Robotic
- 45:15 – Interview with Jan Zizka, co-founder and CEO of Brightpick
Information of the week
UBtech Walker S humanoid robotic demonstrates self battery change.
After Intel exit, RealSense maps its personal future in 3D imaginative and prescient
RealSense spun out from Intel Corp. late final week with $50 million in funding from Intel Capital and MediaTek Innovation Fund. This marks the tip of a tumultuous chapter for Santa Clara, Calif.-based RealSense. In 2021, Intel introduced it was winding down the RealSense enterprise, solely to shortly reverse course. The combined indicators left many within the robotics neighborhood unsure about the way forward for RealSense.
RealSense CEO Nadav Orbach mentioned the brand new firm has 130 workers. He mentioned 115 of these came to visit from Intel, with 15 new hires from exterior firms. Each worker who came to visit from Intel obtained inventory choices within the new firm. RealSense mentioned this not solely rewards the founding group but in addition strengthens its potential to draw high expertise.
Uber companions with Baidu, Lucid, and Nuro on robotaxis
It was a busy week for autonomous automobiles (AVs) and robotaxis. Baidu and Uber partnered to deploy hundreds of Apollo Go AVs on the Uber ridesharing platform in markets in addition to the U.S. and mainland China.
Uber beforehand pursued its personal robotaxi program however bought it off in 2020 and has partnered with self-driving know-how builders since then. Equally, Baidu has partnered with AV builders together with Pony.ai.
As well as, Uber has partnered with electrical automobile (EV) producer Lucid Group Inc. and AV developer Nuro. They may equip the Lucid Gravity SUV with Nuro’s Driver SAE Degree 4 autonomous software program, which is able to function on Uber’s platform and fleet administration methods.
Uber goals to deploy at the very least 20,000 Lucid EVs with the Nuro Driver over the subsequent six years. As a part of this settlement, Uber acknowledged that it’ll make investments $300 million in Lucid and a comparable multi-hundred-million greenback quantity in Nuro. It not too long ago invested $100 million into WeRide.
On a associated notice, RBR50 Robotic of the Yr winner Waymo considerably expanded its Austin service space to 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km), a transfer that adopted Tesla‘s latest improve of its personal service space to 42.07 sq. mi. (109 sq. km).
International industrial robotic market contracted 5.8% final 12 months, stories Work together Evaluation
The 2023 stoop within the international industrial robotic business continued by 2024, with gross sales income declining 5.8% 12 months over 12 months, in response to Work together Evaluation. The market analysis agency attributed this decline to gradual demand brought on by a dip in manufacturing exercise over the 12 months, coupled with a lower in common costs.
The worldwide cargo quantity of business robots in 2024 totaled simply over 505,000 items, reflecting a 2.4% lower in contrast with 2023. This discount in shipments was coupled with a lower in common costs, she mentioned.
The manufacturing business confronted a difficult 12 months in 2024, as excessive rates of interest in Western markets and subdued demand in Asia slowed funding in manufacturing throughout all main areas, famous Work together Evaluation. As well as, competitors inside the industrial robotic market squeezed margins for robotic producers, and lots of rising manufacturers sacrificed profitability for market share, it mentioned.
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