This week’s podcast highlights the agricultural robotics business, 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 business. 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 reside demos the place the automobiles operated in actual fields with actual crops.
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 declares new “Robofab” 75K sq ft manufacturing facility in Corvalis OR.
- The ability will ultimately produce over 10,000 robots per yr
- Clients who’re collaborating within the Agility Companion Program (APP) can anticipate supply of the primary Digits in 2024, with basic market availability in 2025.
- TRI is utilizing Generative AI to show robots
- TRI constructing Massive Habits Fashions – claiming it’ll be just like LLMs and what LLMs have carried out for conversational AI
- Human teaches the robots expertise by teleoperation; TRI’s AI coverage learns within the background and might have the ability down in a matter of hours
- Over 60 expertise realized to this point, 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.
