This week’s podcast highlights the agricultural robotics trade, together with an interview with 4 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 trade. 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 dwell demos the place the automobiles operated in actual fields with actual vegetation.
For our featured interview this week, we sit down with Brandon Contino, CEO and co-founder of 4 Growers, a startup constructing robots to reap meals grown in greenhouses. Brandon talks concerning 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
Information of the week
- Agility Robotics proclaims new “Robofab” 75K sq ft manufacturing facility in Corvalis OR.
- The power will ultimately produce over 10,000 robots per yr
- Clients who’re collaborating within the Agility Associate Program (APP) can anticipate supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with normal market availability in 2025.
- TRI is utilizing Generative AI to show robots
- TRI constructing Giant Habits Fashions – claiming it’ll be much like LLMs and what LLMs have carried out for conversational AI
- Human teaches the robots expertise via teleoperation; TRI’s AI coverage learns within the background and may have the talent down in a matter of hours
- Over 60 expertise realized thus far, they’re hoping to have 1000 expertise realized by the top of subsequent yr; A few of these expertise embrace pouring liquids, utilizing instruments and manipulating deformable objects.