In Episode 185 of The Robotic Report Podcast, co-hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre interview Dr. Kevin Dowling, managing director of The Robotics Manufacturing facility, an incubator and accelerator.
Dr. Kevin Dowling, The Robotics Manufacturing facility
Dowling discusses the function of The Robotics Manufacturing facility in fostering robotics startups. He outlines the group‘s three major applications: Create, Speed up, and Scale, which purpose to assist early-stage firms in numerous points of enterprise improvement.
As well as, Dowling talks concerning the strengths of Pittsburgh‘s robotics ecosystem, the significance of collaboration with establishments corresponding to Carnegie Mellon College, and the challenges startups face in securing funding.
He describes the importance of ardour and drive in entrepreneurs, in addition to the necessity for a stable mental property technique.
Present timeline
- 2:56 – Information of the week
- 21:55 – Dr. Kevin Dowling, managing director of The Robotics Manufacturing facility
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Information of the week
Newest movies exhibit incremental advances in humanoids
Determine AI humanoid robots demonstrated family chores utilizing a vision-language-action mannequin, beneath.
1X Applied sciences launched a video of its newest technology of humanoids, NEO Gamma, working in a house.
New useful necessities defines for assisted residing robots
IEC 63310:2025 Purposeful necessities for Energetic Assisted Residing (AAL) robots doc was launched this week and is out there for buy and overview (CHF 115).
The doc offers with the useful efficiency standards and pointers for robots meant to be used within the AAL related house setting. This doc doesn’t cowl security necessities of robots.
Apptronik works with Jabil to provide Apollo humanoids
Apptronik, which is creating synthetic intelligence-powered humanoid robots, and Jabil, a worldwide manufacturing and provide chain methods supplier, at present introduced a strategic collaboration. The businesses plan to construct Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robots and combine them into Jabil’s manufacturing operations. This contains the manufacturing strains for the robots, “paving the best way for Apollo to construct Apollo,” they stated.
As a part of the pilot program, newly manufactured Apollo models will use Jabil’s manufacturing unit setting for real-world validation testing. The robots will full an array of easy, repetitive intralogistics and manufacturing duties, together with inspection, sorting, kitting, lineside supply, fixture placement, and sub-assembly, earlier than being deployed to Apptronik buyer websites.
Humanoids not a panacea, observe columnists
However humanoid robots have as many skeptics as proponents. Mytra Chief Know-how Officer Ahmad Baitalmal shared why he believes robots ought to deal with operate above a well-known design.
Karthee Madasamy added that that humanoids have captured public creativeness and funding, however builders nonetheless want to unravel manipulation, security, and scale issues. In an article this week, he identified that humanoids have a methods to go and that specialised robots can be found for particular duties at present.
Yamaha Motor acquires Robotics Plus, types Yamaha Agriculture
Yamaha Motor has acquired Robotics Plus to seed a brand new agricultural know-how firm known as Yamaha Agriculture Inc. It’ll deal with delivering autonomous gear and AI-powered digital methods to assist growers within the specialty crop market.
Cobot market to achieve $7.2B by 2030, predicts ABI
ABI Analysis famous that synergy with AI, plus renewed curiosity in reshoring, will assist the collaborative robotic market develop quickly. The report predicted that income from cobots will enhance from $970 million in 2023 to $7.2 billion by 2030 at a compound annual progress fee, or CAGR, of 28%.
The Affiliation for Advancing Automation (A3) tracks industrial and collaborative robotic gross sales in North America. In 2024, firms ordered 31,311 robots valued at $1.9 billion, representing slight will increase of 0.5% in models and 0.1% in income over 2023. In 2023, A3 stated North American robotic orders declined by 30% after two years of report gross sales.
