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This week’s podcast highlights the agricultural robotics business, together with an interview with Four Growers CEO Brandon Contino, and a recap of the 2023 FIRA ag robotics occasion.
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This week’s episode focuses closely on the agricultural robotics business. Cohost Mike Oitzman shares his insights from FIRA USA ag-robotics occasion in Salinas CA. At FIRA, the main ag robotics corporations demonstrated their options in reside 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 proclaims new “Robofab” 75K sq ft manufacturing facility in Corvalis OR.
- The facility will finally produce over 10,000 robots per 12 months
- Customers who’re taking part within the Agility Partner Program (APP) can count on supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with normal 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 performed for conversational AI
- Human teaches the robots abilities via teleoperation; TRI’s AI coverage learns within the background and might have the talent down in a matter of hours
- Over 60 abilities realized thus far, they’re hoping to have 1000 abilities realized by the top of subsequent 12 months; Some of those abilities embody pouring liquids, utilizing instruments and manipulating deformable objects.