The Robot Industry Podcast

Hello everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast (edition #138). We are glad you are here, and thank you for subscribing.

Today, I welcome Louis Lapierre to the podcast; he works for a company called Mecademic Robotics, and they build very precise industrial robots for medical devices, photonics, aerospace, consumer and electronics industries. Their robots are used in assembly, attachment, dispense, material handling and much more.

How did you get in this industry? 

Tell us about the history of Mecademic.

What type of robot did the company launch with?

Y...

Welcome to the podcast (#137) My guest today is Shaun Edwards the CTO of Plus One Robotics.

We are going to be talking about Robotics Foundation Models, RFM for short.

Welcome to the podcast Shawn.

Shawn for those who don’t know about your background, can you tell us about what Plus One Robotics is and some of your experience at Southwest Research Institute / Willow Garage?

Let me set this conversation up. 

Vayu Robotics recently announced its ditching LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology and leveraging foundation models for their new...

Welcome to the podcast (#136) My guest today is Ben Huigenbois, he is president of BOS Innovations in London, Ontario, my home town. From Ben's LinkedIn: Experienced President with a demonstrated history of working in the industrial automation industry. Experienced and skilled in leadership, organizational development, ERP system development, skills development, project management, strategic planning, technology deployment, sales and marketing.

Ben, welcome to the podcast, thanks for joining us. How did you get interested in automation? Give us a bit of your background.

Tell our audience about BOS Innovations? What is it that you do, that...

Welcome to the podcast (#135), Jennifer. I am glad to have you. Can you tell me about Jennifer Apicella?

The Pittsburgh robo-ecosystem is a globally recognized powerhouse of more than 125 advanced technology companies, offering 7,300+ high-impact jobs across 18 industry verticals.

How did you get involved in robotics?

Pittsburgh, it seems both likely and unlikely to be a robotics hub. Tell us about the city.

Is there a synergy between members and / or board members?

How did the city turn into a robotics HUB? How long did it take?

Let’s...

Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #134. It is my pleasure to introduce Nipun Sharma from Appetronix to this edition of the podcast

We have met before, you and I, on the Canadian Food Innovation project. We made a movie together Robotics in Action, Seeing is Believing.

Nipun Sharma is a visionary entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Appetronix, an innovative company revolutionizing the food service industry with fully autonomous robotic quick-service restaurants. By integrating advanced machine learning and data science, Appetronix creates delicious, made-to-order meals without the need for on-site staff, offering a glimpse...

Welcome to podcast #133 with my guests Armin Khatoonabadi and Yi Li from Maple Advanced Robotics Inc., located in Richmond Hill, ON. Some exciting news is that the company has been awarded the Hannover Messe Robotics Award for their AI-driven robotics platform for fast and code-free programming platform.

Armin and Yi, welcome to the podcast. 

Yi Can you tell our audience a bit about you?

Armin, your turn.

Armin you have recently just joined Maple Advanced Robotics, from Apara.ai, correct?

Yi, can you tell us how you got started?

        Ben, welcome to the podcast.

        You are a lawyer by trade, and you have worked in different roles, at the former Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation, which is now called Palladyne AI, and in fact recently came back from retirement to lead the company. Please tell us a bit about yourself and why you decided to come back to the company.

        Let’s talk about the elephant in the room…Palladyne AI is formerly Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation. The company was previously focused on commercializing robotic hardware such as teleoperated robots, exoskeletons and an underwater robot...

Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, #131. For this edition of the podcast, I have two people from the same company: MIR, or Mobile Industrial Robots.

I caught up with Jean-Pierre Hathout the CEO at MIR, at the Automate show, and later I had a conversation with Kevin March who is our local Area Sales Manager. I thought it would be interesting to join the two conversations - one at a trade event and one about sales and applications.

Enjoy the podcast.

https://mobile-industrial-robots.com

Our sponsor is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt...

Micah Estis Green is the Founder and CEO of TAILOS, an inventor of a robot vacuum named Rosie. His company is based in Austin, TX . He is top 30 under 30 and has been covered in lots of magazines including Forbes and other industry periodicals.

First Micah, tell me about Shark Puncher - I have to ask.

You have taken a break from Cornell, is that correct?

How did you get involved in automation and robotics > and you have been building robots for a while?

Tell our audience about your company and how yo...

Happy Friday, everyone. I am in Montreal today finishing up the ADM Montreal 2024 for my client Informa. I am excited to release the latest episode (#129) of The Robot Industry podcast with my friend, Ray Osborne from Anchor Danly. Ray is based in Nashville and services parts of the southern USA on behalf of Anchor Danly. AD is a client and Ray knows a lot about engineered steel and servicing his clients.

Before we get to our episode today I wanted to let you know about a NEW podcast that I am starting called Automation Matters. It is...