On this episode, we study concerning the progressive resolution from Glidance, the 2023 RoboBusiness Pitchfire winner.
Glidance CEO Amos Miller (middle) 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 concerning 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 shortly prototyped “Wizard of Oz” fashion. “It’s inspiring to have startups like Steering in our group,” mentioned Joyce Sidopoulos, chief of operations at MassRobotics. “Their expertise is revolutionizing accessibility and a testomony to the optimistic affect expertise 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 much like a cellphone. | 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 reasonably priced as a brand new cellphone.
If you need to study extra, go to the Glidance web site: https://glidance.io/
The corporate can 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 Reside webcam of an artwork exhibit by Agnieszka Pilat referred to as Heterobata, is on show on the Nationwide Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial Present in Melbourne, Australia. The robots are programmed to know a spread of instructions, and they’ll act autonomously to execute them in no matter order desired. Every of Pilat’s robots is programmed with a distinct character and a distinct position to play within the exhibit. She described them as a “nascent second in expertise,” with rising personalities mimicking how organisms change into specialised over time.
- Tesla demonstrates Optimus Gen 2 dexterity, remembers 2M autos
- Tesla launched a video displaying the enhancing capabilities of its Optimus humanoid robotic, but it surely faces security scrutiny over Autopilot.
- BAD NEWS:
- The corporate is recalling greater than 2 million autos 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 fingers 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 autos.
- The NHTSA has reviewed 956 crashes wherein Autopilot was allegedly in use, reported The Wall Avenue Journal. The company expressed concern concerning the software program and its use fairly than Tesla’s reliance on imaginative and prescient over lidar. The Washington Publish mentioned that a minimum of eight incidents resulted in fatalities or critical accidents.
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