On this episode, we study in regards to the progressive resolution from Glidance, the 2023 RoboBusiness Pitchfire winner.
Glidance CEO Amos Miller (heart) was surrounded by the RoboBusiness Pitchfire judges after profitable the occasion.
Cohosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman sit down with Glidance co-founder and CEO Amos Miller to study all in regards to the genesis of the corporate and its bodily steering robotic. The gadget guides sight-impaired particular person by perceiving the world round them and main them on a protected path to their vacation spot. This gadget is simple to make use of and fast to study, and Amos is promising to revive the independence of sight-impaired people. Amos misplaced his sight to retinitis pigmentosa in his 20s.
Glidance is a member of MassRobotics and launched within the shared workspace in January 2023. As Amos describes within the podcast, the corporate began with an thought and rapidly prototyped “Wizard of Oz” model. “It’s inspiring to have startups like Steerage in our neighborhood,” mentioned Joyce Sidopoulos, chief of operations at MassRobotics. “Their know-how is revolutionizing accessibility and a testomony to the optimistic affect know-how and robotics can have on individuals’s lives and our society.”
Glide has a small type issue and is designed to have a price ticket just like a mobile phone. | Credit score: Glidance
Whereas information canine are an amazing resolution and companion for blind people, sadly, the necessity far outstrips the variety of accessible information canine in any given yr. The Glidance robotic has the chance to assist blind people regain independence and company, particularly those that lose their sight late in life. The Glide unit goes into beta testing in the course of 2024 and guarantees to be as inexpensive as a brand new mobile phone.
If you need to study extra, go to the Glidance web site: https://glidance.io/
The corporate will even be exhibiting at CES 2024, within the Eureka Park exhibit corridor.
Episode timeline
18:36 Interview with Amos Miller, CEO and co-founder of Glidance
Information of the week
- Meet the artist coaching Spot robots to make their very own artwork
- A Dwell webcam of an artwork exhibit by Agnieszka Pilat known as Heterobata, is on show on the Nationwide Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial Present in Melbourne, Australia. The robots are programmed to know a variety of instructions, and they’ll act autonomously to execute them in no matter order desired. Every of Pilat’s robots is programmed with a unique persona and a unique function to play within the exhibit. She described them as a “nascent second in know-how,” with rising personalities mimicking how organisms turn out to be specialised over time.
- Tesla demonstrates Optimus Gen 2 dexterity, recollects 2M automobiles
- Tesla launched a video exhibiting the enhancing capabilities of its Optimus humanoid robotic, however it faces security scrutiny over Autopilot.
- BAD NEWS:
- The corporate is recalling greater than 2 million automobiles because the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) continues to analyze security issues round its Autopilot system.
- When Tesla first introduced the function, some drivers recorded themselves with their palms off the steering wheel, and critics have asserted that the corporate didn’t clearly state the dangers of relying too closely on Autopilot.
- In February, Tesla issued a voluntary recall of 363,000 Mannequin S, Mannequin 3, Mannequin X and Mannequin Y automobiles.
- The NHTSA has reviewed 956 crashes by which Autopilot was allegedly in use, reported The Wall Road Journal. The company expressed concern in regards to the software program and its use relatively than Tesla’s reliance on imaginative and prescient over lidar. The Washington Publish mentioned that at the least eight incidents resulted in fatalities or severe accidents.
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