Episode 204 of The Robotic Report Podcast options company 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 workforce 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 simple 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 expertise officer of cell manipulator developer Whats up Robotic, is from a dwell 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 alerts left many within the robotics group unsure about the way forward for RealSense.
RealSense CEO Nadav Orbach stated the brand new firm has 130 staff. He stated 115 of these came to visit from Intel, with 15 new hires from outdoors firms. Each worker who came to visit from Intel obtained inventory choices within the new firm. RealSense stated this not solely rewards the founding workforce but additionally strengthens its capacity 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 1000’s of Apollo Go AVs on the Uber ridesharing platform in markets moreover the U.S. and mainland China.
Uber beforehand pursued its personal robotaxi program however offered it off in 2020 and has partnered with self-driving expertise 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 can function on Uber’s platform and fleet administration programs.
Uber goals to deploy a minimum of 20,000 Lucid EVs with the Nuro Driver over the following 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 lately invested $100 million into WeRide.
On a associated notice, RBR50 Robotic of the 12 months winner Waymo considerably expanded its Austin service space to 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km), a transfer that adopted Tesla‘s current improve of its personal service space to 42.07 sq. mi. (109 sq. km).
International industrial robotic market contracted 5.8% final yr, reviews Work together Evaluation
The 2023 hunch within the world industrial robotic trade continued by 2024, with gross sales income declining 5.8% yr over yr, in keeping with Work together Evaluation. The market analysis agency attributed this decline to sluggish demand attributable to a dip in manufacturing exercise over the yr, coupled with a lower in common costs.
The worldwide cargo quantity of commercial robots in 2024 totaled simply over 505,000 models, reflecting a 2.4% lower in contrast with 2023. This discount in shipments was coupled with a lower in common costs, she stated.
The manufacturing trade confronted a difficult yr 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 stated.
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