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This week, we introduced the honorees for the 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. On the podcast episode this week, your entire The Robot Report editorial employees brings its opinions, observations, and highlights of the 2024 awards program. Host Steve Crowe discusses the awards with editors Mike Oitzman, Eugene Demaitre, and Brianna Wessling.
Listen because the editors discusses a few of their favourite robotics corporations and merchandise from this cohort of honorees. You’ll study what impressed the editors about a number of of the winners and what’s notable on this yr’s program.
Digit named Robot of the Year
2023 was the yr of humanoids, and Agility Robotics has taken an early lead with business trials. The firm’s Digit humanoid stole the present at ProMAT, the place it demonstrated its means to select up totes from a shelf, stroll over to a conveyor, and place the totes onto the conveyor.
Autopicker wins Application of the Year
Cincinnati-based Brightpick, which spun out of Photoneo, was named the inaugural Application of the Year winner. In 2023, Brightpick unveiled Autopicker, which it stated is the primary commercially accessible AMR that may choose and consolidate orders instantly in warehouse aisles.
Electric Sheep is Startup of the Year
San Francisco-based Electric Sheep’s distinctive enterprise mannequin permits it to herald income because it takes its time deploying its expertise. This enterprise mannequin led to it being named Startup of the Year.
Note that the foundations for the RBR50 state that improvements should be introduced inside the calendar yr. Keep that in thoughts as your group plans its product roadmap, and you’ll want to submit your nomination the following iteration of the RBR50 later this yr.
Come have fun on the 2024 RBR50 Gala
We launched three new classes in 2024 – Robot of the Year, Application of the Year, and Startup of the Year – and will likely be holding the inaugural RBR50 Gala on May 1 from 6:00 to eight:00 p.m. on the finish of Day 1 of the Robotics Summit & Expo.
The gala presents an opportunity to attach with the world’s main robotics innovators. It’s additionally a night of celebration to honor main roboticists and their spectacular achievements.
Tickets to the gala can be found via Wednesday, April 17.
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