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This week’s episode focuses closely on the agricultural robotics trade. Cohost Mike Oitzman shares his insights from FIRA USA ag-robotics occasion in Salinas CA. At FIRA, the main ag robotics firms demonstrated their options in stay demos the place the autos operated in actual fields with actual vegetation.
For our featured interview this week, we sit down with Brandon Contino, CEO and co-founder of Four Growers, a startup constructing robots to reap meals grown in greenhouses. Brandon talks in regards to the technical and enterprise challenges associated to the robotic and the way specializing in greenhouses helps product evolution.
Episode timeline
13:43 FIRA USA replace with Mike Oitzman
27:40 Interview with Brandon Contino
News of the week
- Agility Robotics broadcasts new “Robofab” 75K sq ft manufacturing facility in Corvalis OR.
- The facility will ultimately produce over 10,000 robots per 12 months
- Customers who’re collaborating within the Agility Partner Program (APP) can count on supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with common market availability in 2025.
- TRI is utilizing Generative AI to show robots
- TRI constructing Large Behavior Models – claiming it’ll be much like LLMs and what LLMs have completed for conversational AI
- Human teaches the robots abilities via teleoperation; TRI’s AI coverage learns within the background and may have the ability down in a matter of hours
- Over 60 abilities realized up to now, they’re hoping to have 1000 abilities realized by the tip of subsequent 12 months; Some of those abilities embody pouring liquids, utilizing instruments and manipulating deformable objects.
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