Pushing the bounds of warehouse stock administration

In Episode 155 of The Robotic Report Podcast, editors Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman focus on the information of the week.

On this episode, we meet up with Oana Jinga, co-founder of Dexory, to be taught all in regards to the firm‘s warehouse stock administration system.

Additionally on this episode, we function a dialog between Editorial Director Eugene Demaitre and Garrett Place, who manages enterprise growth for robotic notion at ifm.

Present timeline

• 6:24 – Information
• 21:29 – Interview with Oana Jinga, co-founder and chief industrial and product officer at Dexory
• 53:06 – Interview by Gene Demaitre with Garrett Place, enterprise growth for robotic notion at ifm

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Within the information this week

1. Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid lands first official job
   • The firm signed a multi-year cope with GXO Logistics Inc., the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics supplier, to deploy its Digit humanoids in numerous logistics operations.
   • GXO mentioned it’s commercially deploying a “small fleet” of Digit robots at a Spanx facility in Connecticut. The logistics supplier is paying Agility Robotics beneath a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) mannequin.
   • The businesses didn’t reveal what number of humanoids Spanx is utilizing or specifics of their RaaS settlement. They claimed that that is each the business’s first formal industrial deployment of humanoids and the primary RaaS deployment of such robots.
2. Waymo ends waitlist, opens robotaxi service to all in San Francisco
   • Beginning right now, anybody in San Francisco can hail a robotaxi utilizing Waymo LLC’s app. The corporate has been working within the metropolis for years now, slowing scaling its operations. In complete, practically 300,000 folks, together with those that reside, work, and go to San Francisco, have signed as much as journey for the reason that firm first opened its waitlist.
   • Earlier this month, it expanded its service in Phoenix, its largest service space. The corporate added 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km) to what was already its largest service space in metropolitan Phoenix.
   • Waymo mentioned its riders can now hail Waymo One service throughout 315 sq. mi. (815.8 sq. km) of the Valley. The expanded service space covers extra of Scottsdale’s resorts and expands to downtown Mesa, Ariz. 
3. Robotics investments drive previous $2.1B in Could
   • Robotics investments for Could 2024 topped $2.1 billion, the results of funding for 38 corporations.
   • The $2.1 billion is the very best month-to-month funding quantity for the yr 2024 and exceeds the trailing 12-month common of $1.2 billion.
   • Robotics funding by way of Could 2024 totals roughly $5.7 billion.
   • Largest haul: Sensor producer Wayve introduced a $1.05 billion Collection C funding spherical led by SoftBank Group, with contributions from new investor NVIDIA and current investor Microsoft, to speed up its mission to reimagine autonomous mobility by way of embodied intelligence.
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