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The Pitchfire Startup Competitors have long been a highlight of the opening day at TechCrunch Disrupt, running annually in October. 16-17 in Santa Clara, Calif. Pitchfire, which occurs on Oct.
On April 16th, from 4:00 to 4:45 PM at the Santa Clara Convention Center, attendees will gather for a pivotal event that caters to the interests of traders, robotics innovators, and industry leaders.
Six robotics startups are vying for a top prize of $5,000 over the next 12 months. Startups will have five minutes to present a concise overview of their company’s mission, business model, value proposition, and more. After all contestants have pitched, Pitchfire judges will assess their pitches, reach a collective consensus, and declare a winner based primarily on which contestant they deem most prepared for commercial success.
The companies that previously participated in Pitchfire are Glidance, Tatum Robotics, Southie Autonomy, Sadako Technologies, Autonomous Marine Solutions, inVia Robotics, Catalina Health, Cubit, Rokid, RightHand Robotics, Soft Robotics, and Knightscope. The winner of last year’s competition was Glidance.
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Judges for the competitors include Lisa Chai, Associate at Interwoven Ventures; Rugved Hattekar, Senior Lidar Software Developer at Luminar; Ellen Chisa, Associate at Boldstart Ventures; and Eric Truebenbach, Managing Director at T.
The premier event in the industrial robotics industry is RoboBusiness. With over 70 audio systems, numerous exhibitors showcasing innovative technologies, and extensive demo areas on the expansive expo grounds, attendees can expect a rich environment for connection-building through exclusive networking receptions.
What are the highlights of last year’s employees?
Copper Robotics
Could 1, 2024
Austin, Texas
2
$0
725
Copper Robotics is developing a comprehensive robotics framework that enables the rapid creation of reliable robots. Copper’s founder, Guillaume Binet, highlights the company’s unique offerings, including a comprehensive configuration system and a Rust-centric API. Utilizing Rust’s zero-cost abstractions and data-oriented approach, this implementation achieves sub-microsecond latency on standard hardware, ensuring efficient memory management through the elimination of heap allocations during runtime. Guillaume noted that Copper leverages the strengths of Rust, specifically its emphasis on secure programming, concurrency capabilities, and zero-cost abstractions, to build a robust ecosystem around Rust and robotics applications.
April 1, 2023
Seattle
2
$0
822
The startup is developing a Decentralized Execution eXchange (DEX), an artificial intelligence operating system designed specifically for robotic arms. Firm Founder and CEO Mihai Jalobeanu noted that the operating system enables integrators and even end-users to rapidly develop and deploy robust, reliable vision-based robotic solutions without requiring programming expertise. In dynamic environments, DEX empowers workforce augmentation with collaborative robots (cobots), effectively addressing challenges in unstructured settings, high-mix/low-volume manufacturing, and scenarios where traditional approaches falter or prove prohibitively costly.
Without traditional tools, DEX works seamlessly. Moderately, customers collaborate with DEX as they would with an apprentice, clearly explaining and demonstrating the steps and procedures necessary to complete the task, overseeing its execution, and providing constructive feedback and guidance when needed.
Isochronic AG
Sept. 1, 2020
Lausanne, Switzerland
15
$3.5M
727
Isochronic is growing new sorts of choose & place industrial robots, which allow simultaneous components transport for the primary time. By June 2024, the corporation successfully deployed and commissioned its initial industrial-scale pilot project. It’s now participating with extra clients throughout Europe & North America.
Paradigm Robotics
Could 27, 2022
Austin, Texas
7
$35,000
729
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Paradigm Robotics’ flagship product, FireBot, is an unmanned floor vehicle engineered for extreme temperature resistance, designed to bolster firefighting, public safety, and emergency response capabilities in perilous situations such as construction fires, emergencies, disasters, incidents, and hazardous environments. With its modular design and advanced sensor suite, FireBot delivers mission-critical situational awareness, providing lifesaving insights even in the most perilous environments.
FireBot will be deployed into structural fires or different instantly harmful to life or well being (IDLH) environments to help major and secondary search operations, detect and determine hazards, reply to HazMat & RIC conditions, monitor fireplace dynamics (find the seat of a hearth, extension and many others), monitor air high quality & structural integrity, 3D map constructions, carry gear and payloads (as much as 300lbs), help post-incident auditing, act as a TED machine, and act as a help machine for fireplace floor operations.
Robotics 88
February 24, 2021
Boston
4
$0
824
The Robotic 88 autonomous unmanned aircraft system enables land managers to proactively address wildfire risk and promote ecological balance by reintroducing natural fire cycles through precision-prescribed burning. What enables this unmanned aerial system’s cutting-edge performance is its unique ability to operate at low elevations beneath treetops, thereby capturing vital information about forest floor vegetation with unprecedented precision.
This unmanned aerial system leverages autonomous decision-making algorithms, mapping capabilities, impediment avoidance features, and multi-UAS coordination to deliver valuable insights at every stage of the firefighting process: pre-burn maps provide crucial climate information and resource requirements, while post-burn maps facilitate comprehensive mop-up operations (ensuring a thorough extinguishing) and long-term forest monitoring. Aerial ignition technology, combined with heightened situational awareness, enables the execution of larger and more secure prescribed burn operations.
Summer time Robotics
January 1, 2020
Campbell, Calif.
7
$0
723
Summer time Robotics has created a revolutionary robotic visual intelligence system, boasting the ability to deliver responses up to 10 times faster than before. The corporation licenses its proprietary software program to partners that develop vision hardware. The integration of cutting-edge hardware and sophisticated software enables robots to execute tasks previously reserved for humans, such as Securing bolts on an erratic automotive assembly, where sudden movements are commonplace.
Summer Time Robotics is currently collaborating with its inaugural partner to launch a product to market by early 2025, targeting the automotive manufacturing industry.
