The Robot Industry Podcast

The easy Automation Solution is Hard “The right solution that works all the time for anybody”  is HARD Scot Lindemann, CEO of Mission Design & Automation, has 30+ years of leadership in Automation and Robotics. Formerly of JR Automation where he served for many years in various leadership roles and was instrumental in helping them achieve record growth until he left in 2016 as its co-CEO. Scot then took the role of President of BACA Systems, a stone robotics fabrication equipment provider in southeast Michigan, from 2017-2020. Scot has a passion for intelligent automation and robotics, leadership development and customer service. A Lake Superior State University (LSSU) graduate in Robotic Systems Engineering, Scot Lindemann has served the automation and robotics industry for over three decades. Beyond his time working on the industrial automation integrator front, he has also been active in FIRST Robotics and has been a member of and served as a Director for the Association for Advancing Automation. Scot is also one of a limited number of recipients of FANUC's President's Circle award. Scot has also served on the LSSU board of Directors as well as served as a Board Member and as Chairman of the Board for Lakeshore Advantage, a West Michigan nonprofit economic development organization. Scot, joins me for podcast #88 and we have a conversation about ease of use in the robotics and automation industry. Scot, welcome to the podcast, Let's talk about automation and especially what is getting easier? But Scot, as easy as it is, we know that it really is getting more complex… Do you feel that the industry or the media is talking too much about simplicity and maybe not enough about preparation, training, talent, timelines? Scot, what other things are making it harder? Are parts and part families, part feeding, getting harder? Is Budgeting (for automation, maintenance) is getting more complex? Do you find the conversation between OT and IT becoming simpler or harder, or is it even happening? Are you dealing with clients around Cybersecurity, or is this one more complexity? Thanks for coming onto the podcast, What do you like to do when you are not building automation? How can people get a hold of you? To find out more about Mission Design & Automation If you would like to reach out Scot Lindemann, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at 616.239.1258 Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated man

For podcast #87, I invited Alessia Alfieri to join me at their automation facility. Alessia is a Project Manager at Ethos Automation Inc. located in Brantford, Ontario. She has worked in Tier 1 Automotive industry where she met her now new boss, Peter Botros. Alessia, welcome to the podcast, thanks for joining us. Here are some of my interview questions: Was there an influence in your life that led you to engineering? Were you just good at all the STEM subjects? Did your co-op experiences help you define your interests more clearly or help you figure out what you DIDN'T want to do? So how does being a Project Manager differ from other engineering jobs you've held in past? As a woman in male-dominated profession and workplace, can you talk about some of the challenges you may have had? What advice would you have for young women considering entering engineering? Manufacturing? What about ETHOS made you want to work there? When you are not saving the world what do you like to do? How can people get a hold of you? If you would like to find out more information on Ethos Automation, you can reach out to Alessia on her LinkedIn profile. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ethos Automation, Automation Systems Integrators, Alessia Alfieri, #therobotindustrypodcast

I caught up with Joe Campbell from Universal Robots at The Assembly Show this fall 2022 in Rosemont, Illinois. We had a great conversation about what is happening in the world of collaborative robots, Universal Robots and assembly automation. I wanted to find out what was happening with UR from Joe's perspective. Full disclosure that I have worked with UR for several years, but it was nice to meet with Joe face to face. To find out more about Universal Robots If you would like to reach out Joe Campbell, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at www.universal-robots.com by email at ur.na@universal-robots.com and by phone: 844-462-6268 Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Universal Robots, Cobots, collaborative robots Joe Campbell #therobotindustrypodcast

Kristian Tazbazian is the Co-Founder/COO at Gastronomous Technologies, and we have a bit of history. Tell us a bit about Gastronomous, you have just moved locations, I understand. What is the market for automated robot chefs? Who are your bulls-eye clients? Partnerships are really important here. Tell us a bit about some of these? What are the motivators for your prospect customers? Is there any AI in your application?Where do you think we will see the robot, or will we even see it?You are doing the really hard work, innovating kitchens with a modular perspective, why this modular approach?You have had a lot of interest from around the world, what gets you most excited for this technology? To find out more about Gastronomous If you would like to reach out Kristian, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at info@gastronomous.ca Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast BTW you can check out our history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ELIu0vpAg Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Gastronomous, Robot chefs, Robots that cook, #therobotindustrypodcast

Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #84. Daniel  Theobald is my guest. He  is the Chief Innovation Officer and founder of Vecna Robotics, a flexible, intelligent material handling automation company.  Daniel has decades of experience leading research scientists and teams of engineers in developing cutting-edge technology. He has 67 issued patents and more than 30 patents pending.    Daniel  has been on the forefront of robotics for more than 20 years, working closely with DARPA, DOD, NASA, NIH, USDA and many others to advance the use of robots and AI software to improve supply chain automation. In addition to founding Vecna Robotics, Daniel  also co-founded MassRobotics, a non-profit dedicated to the global advancement of the robotics industry. Daniel is dedicated to the idea that technology can be used to empower people worldwide to live more fulfilling lives. Here are some of the questions that we talk about on the pod: Let's talk about what is going on in the industry from a high level at Vecna (trends, etc) Interoperability, how did we get here? How do we fix it? What are company motivations? Cultural motivations in the robotics industry. How does Mass Robotics fit into this? How do you actually do this – invent a standard? When you are not writing standards what do you like to do? How can people get a hold of you? To find out more about Vecna, Mass Robotics or you would like to reach out Daniel, here is his LinkedIn profile. We mentioned the incorrect email address for MassRobotics during the podcast, so the correct email is theo@massrobotics.org Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Vecna Robotics, Robot Interoperability, Mass Robotics, Robert Theobald, Jim Beretta, #therobotindustrypodcast, "how to take your warehouse from no bot to

I was thrilled to be able to catch up with Ethos Automation's Calvin Kimura recently, and I was able to record this podcast live at Ethos Automation's facility in Brantford, ON which is an easy drive from London. Calvin is an automation specialist and also co-founder of Ethos Automation. He is a graduate in the electromechanical engineering technology program from Humber College. Calvin also worked in Tier 1 Automotive for Magna Corporation. There is a lot going on at Ethos, for such a young automation company. For example both Calvin Kimura and his business partner, Peter Botros were named winners in Manufacturing Automation's Top 10 Under 40 program and are setting the bar for young professionals across the industry in automated manufacturing. Calvin was also recently on a webinar with Manufacturing Automation magazine's editor Sukanya Ray Ghosh on the Future of Automation Virtual Event 2022, and I was involved as well. Here are some of the questions that we talked about for podcast #83: Can you describe the types of automation that you are building? Are there any specific tools or technologies that you are seeing now, that maybe you weren't a few years ago? Machine vision? What kind of trends are you seeing in automation for welding? Are parts getting bigger or smaller? Are projects getting simpler or more complex? What about industry 4.0 and maybe iiot in the machines that you are building? A question about robots, etc. Bigger, more of them, etc. Do customers need more help, more training? To find out more about Ethos Automation or you would like to reach out Calvin, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team via their contact form. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ethos Automation, Calvin Kimura, #ethosautomation #robotwelding #therobotindustrypodcast

For podcast #82 I finally got to connect up with Sean Dotson. We talk about a lot of things from human capital, vacations, HMIs, flexibility, innovation and ease of use of automation systems. Sean Dotson, PE is President and founder of RND Automation. A Florida native he received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. Sean has been in the industrial automation and robotics industry his entire career, founding RND in 2005. In 2020 he sold RND Automation to a private equity firm and now serves as both RND's president and CAS Holding's CTO HE manages the 3 divisions: RND, iAutomation & PanelTek. Now retired from racing, Sean used to compete in triathlons ranging from Olympic to full Ironman distance. But he's considering a comeback soon... :) TODAY we are going to talk about culture in hiring in the automation industry. We all talk about culture. What elements make up a culture in a company? How can you tell if a company has poor culture? What is your process to make sure that you have a good cultural fit. How important is culture in your company and in the industry? Very! Do you have a code or written document?Do you hire for culture? What are the downsides to this?What do you do to drive (the) culture in the business?I would like to talk around innovation – What about innovation. In your business innovation is everything or not?Can you reward innovation? Do you think that your customers recognize the company culture at RND and do you think that customers reward innovative companies? When you are not building automation, what do you like to do? Are you in hiring mode right now? How can people get a hold of you? To find out more about RND Automation If you would like to reach out Sean, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at him and his team at sales@RNDautomation.com Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomat

For podcast #81, I welcome Brian Powell to The Robot Industry Podcast. With over 30 years of experience in factory automation, Brian is well versed in robotics, machine vision and product development. In his current role with Brooks Automation, he is responsible for sales of robotic and control automation to a diverse group of OEMs across laboratory automation, medical device and electronics industries. Prior to Brooks, Brian held sales and program management positions with Precise Automation, Xyratex International, Adept Technology and RVSI, now part of Siemen's Simatic Sensors. He earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from California State University and an MBA from Saint Mary's College of California. Brian, welcome to the podcast. Can you tell our audience a bit about where Precise Automation has come from and the early business focus? What types of cobots do you design and build? Precise Automation has become part of Brooks, and that is your big news. You must feel like a kid in a candy store, what does this mean for Precise? Who is Brooks Automation? Has this acquisition expanded your market focus? What is in your bulls-eye? What sectors are you delivering robots into, have you got any robot stories? Let's talk about safety. Tell me about Dynamic Feed Forward? What trends are you seeing in robots and automation? What is PreciseFlex brand? When you are not educating the world about collaborative bots what do you like to do? How can people get a hold of you? Contact Info Brian Powell Director, Sales & Marketing Brooks Automation brian.powell@brooks.com 925-437-4119 www.brooks.com If you would like to know more about Brooks Automation you can cliand click on the link to find out more about to connect with Brian on LinkedIn, click here. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Kim van Kirk, and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to the robotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Cobots, PreciseFlex, Collaborative Robots, Brooks Automation, Precise Automation, Brian P

For podcast #80, I had the chance to speak with Patrice Roulet Fontani Vice President, Technology and Co-Founder of ImmerVision based out of Montreal. After completing his Master's degree in image processing and computer graphics, Patrice joined the INRIA, contributing to research in the robotic surgery field. He also co-founded Immervision where he leads the engineering team. In addition, Patrice contributes to IP growth and the adoption of Immervision's technology by global corporations. He has overseen the integration of wide-angle imaging technology in numerous industry verticals and is also an IEEE Senior Member, invited speaker at various conferences, and co-author of multiple publications and patents. Questions: Tell us about Immervision, and what you do with regard to vision systems for robotics? What unique research/work are you doing in the field of Robotics, and in particular for vision systems? What are you seeing as the biggest challenge for vision systems in robotics? What makes your approach different? Explain, why robot vision must integrate with human vision. Provide a solution to overcome this challenge. Can you elaborate on the problem of dual computer and human vision, and what you are seeing as the most viable solution? With over 20 years of innovation, Immervision creates solutions that see beyond human vision. Its Deep Seeing technology and renowned experts in wide-angle optical design and image processing enable smart devices with superhuman eyes to capture high quality visual and contextual data. The company invents, customizes, and licenses wide-angle lenses and imaging software technology for AI, machine vision and user applications, from capture to display, in the mobile, automotive, robotics, security, and other industrial and consumer product industries. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Patrice Roulet Fontani, a very professional Paige McEachren, and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Immervision, #therobotindustrypodcast, Patrice Roulet Fontani For more information: www.immervision.com. 

Armando Gonzalez joined Bosch Rexroth in 2021 and is the North American business leader for AMR/Robotics. He's been in industrial automation for almost 20 years and working with robots since for over 16 of those years. Armando currently resides in Dallas, TX and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. In his time off he's enjoying the outdoors with his (2) boys or teaching them about NFT's. Armando, I am sure everyone knows who Bosch Rexroth is, but remind us who you are? What is an AMR? What are some of the misconceptions of Robotic Automation from your perspective? What's the best advice you can give someone who is looking to bring in Robotics totheir facility? What are some of the typical low-hanging fruit use cases, esp for AMRs? Tell us some stories? This is fairly new technology…What are some of the big challenges (interoperability?) that industry faces? What about small manufacturers and AMR's is there a perception that you have to be big to execute? Let's talk about mixed fleets, indeed mixed fork lifts, AMRs in the same warehouse. Who's in charge? How do companies have to change: Do we need a traffic cop in our factories? Do we have to have flow experts? Who is GeekPlus? QR Bots? ASRS systems? What do you predict the future will look like? Armando, what do you like to do when you are not selling bots? Thanks for coming onto the podcast, how can people reach you? If you would like to know more about Bosch Rexroth you can click here, and click on the link to find out more about Armando. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Armando Gonzalez, Gina Mudie and Sarah Poliski from Godfrey, and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Armando Gonzalez Bosch-Rexroth #AMRs #therobotindustrypodcast

OhmniLabs | Thinking Outside The Bot | Podcast #78 OhmniLabs™ is changing the paradigm of robotics development. They thrive at creating flexible robotics modules and scalable additive manufacturing processes. Every engineer at Omnilabs including their software, electrical, mechanical professionals is cross trained on production engineering. This tight vertical integration ensures that they solve problems at the most efficient level. Dr. Thuc Vu is the CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. He previously founded Katango and Tappy which were acquired by Google and Weeby.co, respectively. Thuc has deep expertise in game theory, machine learning, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD from Stanford and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. In 2017, Thuc was named as one of the “40 Under 40” of Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal for his tireless efforts to bring about a significantly positive impact in the business world. Our conversation and Questions. Benefits of the robots Social impacts of Telepresence Robot What are the big challenges?Values vs. CostsTell us a bit about some challenges in use cases How has pandemic changed the business?How do you sell costs 3d printing?UV disinfection robotData?Future trendsHave we forgotten anything?How can people get a hold of you? To find out more about Ohmnilabs, check them out. If you would like to reach out Thuc, here is his LinkedIn proflie. Thanks to Laura Guy for her help in putting this conversation together. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our friends: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ohmnilabs, Telepresence Robots, disinfectant robots, #therobotindustrypodcast

I am pleased to have Peter Keane from Qualifi join me for this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast. Peter works for Informa, and they have been a long time client of mine with the ATX Toronto and ATX Montreal show. Here are some of my questions for Peter: What is Qualifi, who is informa Markets?  Qualifi – new digital marketing division that takes 1) 1st party data mixes this with 2) Audience Intelligence and activates via 3) programmatic media to reach the exact audience a marketer wants to reach. What is first party data? Why is 1st Party Data Important? What does Qualifi do with this 1st Party Data? What is a lookalike audience and how does it relate to 1st Party Data?Talk about Audience Intelligence? How does Audience Intelligence work? Let's talk about the funnel, everyone is after leads? Activation – programmatic media can you explain programmatic? What kind of media to you deliver? How effective is programmatic advertising? This sounds a bit too good to be true, is it legal? Who is this program good for? How would you use this? Companies that want advanced targeting, more accuracy, less waste Easy, didn't have to hire an ad agency – will address the turn key nature of the program, just like hiring a digital agency without the cost, big advantage One more tool in their toolbox? A big tool in the toolbox Typical length of a program? How do customers consider the ROI? Project management / client success? What do I need to do to get started? What do you like to do when you are not connecting sellers and buyers? How do people get a hold of you? Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Peter, the team at Qualifi and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Qualifi, Peter Keane, The Robot Industry Podcast, audience intelligence, programmic advertising, media buying.

Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #76. My guest for this podcast is Ted Larson. Ted Larson is CEO and Co-Founder of OLogic, Inc. an embedded systems research and development company with a focus on robotic applications and technologies. Ted has over 30 years of experience designing and building commercial software applications. His current interest areas are robotics, artificial intelligence, and embedded systems in consumer and professional electronic devices. Ted graduated from California Polytechnic State University with BS and MS degrees in Computer Science.  He has worked on numerous robotics projects with leading corporations including Google, Hasbro, Savioke and Panasonic. Ted has spoken at several of the past ROBOBusiness Expos, the annual Silicon Valley conference that has helped business leaders understand where the market is going, and which has assisted in implementing their robotics vision within their organizations.  Ted Welcome. I am excited for the conversation today. What do you do at OLogic?Who are your typical customers? You have been involved in many robot projects, how do you get involved usually? Prototype?Do you get involved when people have problems? What products might our listeners recognize?What has been the most challenging?What has been the most fun?You have built some toys? What famous projects have you been involved with (that you can talk about)?You have about 27 people working with you. What are their backgrounds?What tools are in your toolbox?What robot technology is high up on your radar (AI, GPS, Safety, Raas)Can you give us some use cases?How long does a project take? When you are not building robots, or fixing them, what do you like to do in the off time?Have we forgotten anything? How can people get in touch with you? To find out more about OLogic check them out. If you would like to reach out Ted, here is his LinkedIn profile can also reach out at ted @ ologicinc .com Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Ted Larson, Juliana Orr, and Simon Wright from Qrius Minds and the team from OLogic and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of thei

For this 75th edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I welcome Jared Evans from MAJiK Systems Inc in Waterloo, ON to the pod. Jared is Co-Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and manufacturing industry. He is skilled in sales, corporate management, technical writing, and engineering. Jared has a strong operations background. He has earned his Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) focused in Engineering/Industrial Management from University of Waterloo. Jared, welcome to the podcast. Can you tell our audience about MAJiK Systems and how you got started?What is happening in your industry?What trends are you seeing? Industries?You are doing complex work what are some of these challenges?Can you share some of the projects that you have worked on recently? Use cases?How important is the manufacturing culture and getting operators onboard?How do you work with clients?How do customers get ready to engage you?Do you sell through distributors?What does success look like for your end customer?How are you working to set customers up for success with Visual Factory Production Monitoring Practices. You can follow MAJiK Systems on LinkedIn and you can reach out to Jared on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-evans-69056771/ Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Jared Evans and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Jared Evans, MAJiK Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast

Podcast #74 of The Robot Industry Podcast and I am happy to have Pablo Molina, Chairman, CTO, VP of Product & Co-Founder of Avidbots Inc. join me. Avidbots is an automomous robot company located in Kitchener, Ontario. I disclose that Avidbots is a past client when, they were just getting started in their commercialization. A bit about Pablo: Pablo's vision is to live in a world where robots and humans work together in everyday life. He has been building robots since the early days of his undergraduate program at the University of Waterloo. After graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechatronics Engineering, Pablo received his Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University in Space Robotics. He quickly applied his space robotics know-how working as an autonomous navigation designer at NepTec Design Group before co-founding Avidbots with Faizan Sheikh in 2014. When Pablo isn't working with robots or thinking about tasks to automate, he enjoys playing keyboards in music bands, working out, and playing soccer. Pablo, welcome to the podcast. It's good to talk with you again. Can you tell our listeners about Neo, your floor-scrubbing autonomous robot?We know that cleaning floors is a perfect match for robotics and automation. Have you seen more interest in Neo, especially post-pandemic?You are on the 8th edition of the robot that you built from scratch, correct? Can you tell us some of the recent advancements for Neo?Your focus has been on clean warehouses, airports, retail malls and universities, and larger retail spaces. Is this still the case or has your customer target changed?You are building robots in Kitchener, Ontario, correct? Can you talk about your Canadian and global reach?What are the big motivators for your customer base? What is their ROI? Cleanliness, staffing?There are a lot of sensors in Neo. What is most important and what other sensors are you thinking about? Do customers provide any specific sensor requests?How important is data to your customer base? How is Neo leading the way in leveraging data for an efficient and effective clean?Can you talk about the purchasing journey for a floor-scrubbing robot?Can you talk about the rise of multi-functional robots?What is the future of cleaning robotics? How must the commercial AMR market evolve and challenge the status quo to make robots more accessible?Personal question, what do you like to do when you are not thinking about floor-scrubbing robots? (you can opt out if you are not comfortable)How can people get a hold of you or learn more about Avidbots? To find out more about Avidbots, check them out. If you would like to reach out Pablo, here is his LinkedIn and you can also reach out to Avidbots on their website https://www.avidbots.com/ Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Pablo Molina and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with

Augmented and mixed reality expert, Duncan McSporran joins me for podcast #73 of The Robot Industry Podcast. I have known about Kognitiv Spark for a while from a friend in Cambridge, but I met up with the Kognitiv Spark team at a trade event in Toronto recently, and thought it would be interesting to have Duncan on an episode of TRIP. What got you into this industry?Let's talk about AR and VR right now, where is the industry?Why is it important?How does your product work?One of your big competitors is the Iphone?What industries are in your bullseye?How do you sell your product, through integrators?Do you have any use cases that you can discuss, I heard of a very Northern Canadian city that is using your product?Are you venturing into healthcare sector?What is the future of your industry?Have I forgotten to ask you anything? What do you like to do when you are not selling VR? How can people get in touch with you? To find out more about Kognitiv Spark, check them out. If you would like to reach out Duncan, here is his LinkedIn profile, you can also reach out at duncan @ cognitivspark.com Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Duncan McSporran, Kim Holland and the team from Kognitiv Spark and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robotic turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Kognitive Spark, Duncan McSporran, AR, VR, Mixed Reality, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Robotics advanced manufacturing, Custom software, #therobotindustrypodcast

For this 72nd edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I welcome Hugues Foltz from Quebec City, Quebec Hugues Foltz has been supporting companies in the development and execution of their digital transformation for more than 20 years. In 2018, he became co-owner and executive vice-president of Vooban, a firm recognized for its expertise in artificial intelligence and the development of custom software solutions. Hugues, welcome to the podcast, I am glad that you are here. Tell our audience a bit about Vooban, and how you got started. You are based in Quebec, why is that?There is a certain confusion on AI and ML, how do you explain the difference?What is happening in Artificial Intelligence especially in advanced manufacturing and robotics? Trends? Is there a fear in AI?Who is buying AI – is it C Suite, the president, IT or OT?What is the typical project look like?How long does AI take?Use Cases of robotics and manufacturingDo people your prospects do prototype projects, like small projects?ROI of AI? Is the time period a few months or a few years?On the hardware side, for projects that you are building, are they new builds or retrofits?How much are people spending, maybe as a percentage of machinery?How can people get a hold of you? To find out more about Vooban, check them out. If you would like to reach out Hugh, here is his profile. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Hugh and Annie O'farrell from Vooban and our partners: A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Vooban, Hugues Foltz, Digital Transformation, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Robotics and manufacturing, Custom software, AI for manufacturing #therobotindustrypodcast SbTTaUj5oTNhItNQHVV7

For The Robot Industry Podcast #71, I welcome Yehuda Elmaliah, CEO of Cogniteam and Ari Yakir, VP of Research and Development. Yehuda is formerly Dean of Computer Science at COMAS near Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a leading expert on algorithms for robot autonomy. Ari Yakir has over 15 years' experience developing and managing cutting -edge algorithms and products for autonomous robots. Cogniteam, the company has been developing artificial intelligence technologies for robots for over ten years, working with blue chip companies on mapping, navigation and autonomous decision-making. They have packaged their unique suite of algorithms together as a single product, bringing cloud-based robotic artificial intelligence solutions in one easy-to-use place that allows robot startup companies to get to market faster, develop, prove and scale. Here are some of the questions that I ask Yehuda and Ari: How did you get started? What are the industry's biggest challenges from your perspective?Who are your bulls eye customers?Tell us a bit about some challenges in use cases getting involved in? Can you name some of your partners or integrators? How do you sell to your perspective clients? How has pandemic changed the new normal? Your growth plans?How can people get a hold of you?What do you like to do when you are not programming robots To find out more about Cogniteam in Israel, check them out. If you would like to reach out Ari or Yehuda, here are their LinkedIn profiles. Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing. Regards, Jim Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Dor Livny from Cogniteam and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Cogniteam, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Nimbus Software, Autonomous Robots #therobotindustrypodcast

Humanizing robots to make them more human, so they can be easily introduced into manufacturing plants, regardless of their field. Michael's bio: Michael has a strategic spirit, focused on the Robotics industry's evolution, and motivated to enable innovative products focused on market issues. His goal? Maximize the potential of all, to conquer the world as a team! Michael is the Director Of Product Development at AV&R located in Montreal Let's talk about AV&R can you give our listeners a brief about what you do AV&R started in precision inspection and grinding, polishing of aerospace components When did you start using the things that you learned in aerospace and apply them to medical device and which devices are we talking about There is an difference between accuracy and repeatability in robotics, can you explain the difference? Any how did you overcome this issue with respect to vision inspection and polishing You have a big partnership with FANUC, it is a bit unusual to be tied to one robot brand? Let's talk about data, is this something that is important to your customers? ROI - has that discussion changed Has pandemic affected business? How do you attract personnel to AV&R? Where do you see the industry going from here Personal question - optional, what do you like to do when you are not selling robot solutions Michael, thanks for coming onto the podcast, how can people get a hold of you? To find out more about AV&R in Montreal, check them out. If you would like to reach out Michael here is his LinkedIn. Also, please have a listen to AV&R's podcast: Robotics for all https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robotics-for-all-podcast-by-av-r/id1543217034 Mentioned on the podcast: Rolls Royce Aletheia AI Framework https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2020/14-12-2020-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-rolls-royce-publishes-pioneering-bias-control.aspx AV&R episode on the AI Aletheia Framework: https://www.rolls-royce.com/sustainability/ethics-and-compliance/the-aletheia-framework.aspx Enjoy the podcast. Regards, Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Michael and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt

Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast for episode #59. For this edition, I welcome Victor Darolfi from Robotire. Victor and his team are attempting to change the retail automotive service department by adding, you guessed it: robots and automation. The first area and low hanging fruit of the retail car store service department is changing automotive car tires. It is a perfect example of dull, dirty and monotonous work - a great target for robots and automation. Here are some of my questions: How did you get started?How important was Y combinator?Value propositionHow does the system work?What is the vision and what is the ROI for a system?Who are Robotire's Bulls Eye Customers?What are your big challengesWhat is next for Robotire?How can people get a hold of you? Enjoy the podcast! Regards, Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our Victor and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to find out more about Robotire, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile you can find Victor on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-darolfi-92b17311/ If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Robotire, Victor Darolfi, automotive service, robots, robotics, car tires, car tyres, Y Combinator #therobotindustrypodcast.

For this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast, I have invited AJ Meyer from Pickle Robots to talk about the why and the how of the problem that they are going to solve: to unload trucks automatically with robot arms. This is really hard, difficult work: hot, cold, repetitive work and there is lots of it. We talk about the market size, market segments, the complexities, the bullseye customer and the human side of unloading trucks. To find out more about Pickle Robot, check them out. If you would like to reach out AJ, here is his LinkedIn. Enjoy the podcast. Regards, JimCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to AJ Meyer and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: unload trailers, unloading trucks, Pickle Robot, Robots as a service, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast

My guest for episode #69 of The Robot Industry Podcast is Neil Tardella. Neil Tardella is President of Energid Technologies, a division of Universal Robots (A Teradyne Company). Energid focuses on developing software for cooperative robot motion planning and simulation. Energid's software platform, Actin, is used by government agencies and commercial companies to simplify development and speed deployment of multi-arm/high-axis systems in the medical, industrial, energy, and space robotics sectors. As a cofounder of Energid, Neil helped navigate the bootstrapped company through various phases—from having an initial focus on government R&D, developing software for NASA and the Department of Defense, to a commercial engineering services company, to a profitable software/licensing/services company that was ultimately purchased by Teradyne in 2018. Neil holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford and a M.S. in Computer Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic Institute of New York University). We talk about Energid, products and services (high level) What is happening in the robot / motion control industry right now? What do you mean by cooperative robotics? How does having more axes help solve industrial automation problems? Who are your typical customers? What are some problems you solve for customers with examples? How do you work with them? Real time path planning? What is it and why is this so hard? Specific to medical robots. How mature is the industry? Where are medical robotics used? What are some of the challenges? How do you innovate and work with partners? To find out more about Energid, check them out. If you would like to reach out Neil, here is his LinkedIn. Enjoy the podcast.Regards, Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Neil, Nena and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Energid, Teradyne, Surgical Robots, Neil Tardella, Cooperative Robots, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast

Eigen Innovations is a Fredericton-based technology company that provides software solutions for the Industrial Internet. Eigen has a patented multi-dimensional non-linear software algorithm that leverages "big data" information from industrial equipment and, based on the algorithm's optimization capability, provides control input into the key devices that operate the manufacturing process. The end result is a more efficient manufacturing operation. Scott Everett is the co-founder and CEO of Eigen Innovations Inc., an independent software vendor based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada that delivers advanced AI-enabled machine vision solutions and software for industrial manufacturers. Scott is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick where he graduated with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. Driven by a passion for bringing technology to the factory floor to solve complex and unseen process and quality problems for manufacturers, Scott and his team have designed a machine vision platform that's been successfully adopted by tier 1 automotive suppliers across the globe and that's scaling rapidly with partners like Intel and Amazon Web Services helping to kick open the right doors. How did you get involved/started with Eigen Innovations? Machine vision is a hot space right now, can you define the difference between AI and ML? Vision has suffered thorough robustness and certainly, and you are out to solve this challenge? What makes your approach different? What is OpenVINO toolkit? Let's talk about the data. Where is it? How does quality access it? Who calls you? Industry 4.0 person? Plant Mgr, Quality Professional, CEO? What are the benefits and savings? IS ROI gone? How do you sell your product, through systems integrators? What is the future hold for AI in manufacturing? One of my favorite quotes from our conversation: "If you don't want to make bad parts, just don't make bad parts" To find out more about Eigen Innovations, check them out. If you would like to reach out Scott, here is his LinkedIn. Enjoy the podcast. Regards, Jim BerettaCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Scott and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: EIgen Innovations, Scott Everett, FLIR, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast

Welcome to A3 The Robot Industry Podcast, Edition #67Herbert ten Have is an innovative business leader with more than three decades of experience in building high-tech products and services. In his career, he has held leadership positions, from Product and Marketing Manager to International Sales and Marketing Director. As a serial entrepreneur, Herbert has successfully founded and run multiple high-tech companies. He effortlessly rides the wave of inherent challenges that come with technology and loves sharing his expertise. Today, as CEO of Fizyr, Herbert is committed to building the best vision software product to enable Fizyr’s partners to provide cutting-edge robotic picking solutions for the logistics industry. • Tell me a bit about Fizyr.• How did you get started?• What are the big challenges?• Won the big Amazon pick challenge• Partnership with AWL?• Tell us a bit about some challenges in use cases getting involved in? • Truck unloading, depalletizing, and truck unloading what is most popular?• What are the industry challenges? • How do you charge - how does a company subscribe to your service? How do you work with integrators?• Can you name some of your partners or integrators? • How has pandemic changed the new normal, esp in Europe?• People used to online shopping? End user structure changing• Tell our audience about the Fizyr Team • Team activities• How do you engage with your people?• Where is Delft and why Delft?• What do you like to do when you are not selling AI software? Enjoy the podcast. Jim Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Herbert ten Have and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot.To get in touch with Herbert, you can find him on LinkedIn or contact the company on their website.If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Fizyr, Deep Learning Vision Software, Herbert ten Have #Netherlands #Delft #therobotindustrypodcast

Brain Corp is the global leader helping to create the largest fleet of autonomous robots - over 16,000 units. Brain has products organized around Clean, Move, Sense and Flow categories. My guest is Jeff Heller. Jeff has been with Brain Corp for more than two years, leading the Product Management Team and overseeing all robotic applications within the Clean, Move, Sense and Flow categories. Jeff's first exposure to Robotics was in High School where he participated in the F.I.R.S.T. (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program, founded by Dean Kamen, who's possibly best known for the Segway. This program involved partnering with local engineering firms to build task-oriented robots and competing against other high schools on a national level. Prior to joining Brain Corp Jeff worked at Wag Labs, Inc. and LifeLock. Here are some of the questions that I pose to Jeff: Tell us a bit about Brain and what your job is at Brain Your products are around CLEAN MOVE SENSE and FLOW. Why is that? What is happening in the industry around autonomous floor cleaning? Challenges and opportunities? You are taking a partner approach to manufacturing products, explain Who is making the buying decision when it comes to cleaning? Let's talk about data - something your customer never had before. How valuable is cleaning data? What does the ROI discussion look like? Who makes the purchase decision? This is kind of a show-me industry, how does the customer buy? Should we talk about other autonomous vehicles that you are building? Retail? What do you see as the future? Enjoy the podcast. Regards, JimCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. You can get in touch with Jeff on LinkedIn or through the Brain Corp site. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: BRAIN CORP, Brain OS, Cleaning Robots, Floor scrubbing robots, Retail robots, shelf scanning robots, self driving robots, Robots as a service, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast

Welcome to podcast #64. Dave Johnson is the CEO at Dexai Robotics. He often talks about our current labor shortage, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robots, consistency and the messy environment of an industrial kitchen. Some of the questions that I ask Dave: How did you get involved in robotics?Tell me and our audience about Dexai and about AlfredWhy would I want a robot in my kitchen as a restaurant owner?Robots as a serviceWhat are the main markets that you are pursuingThe tech, control systems, vision inspection, the botWhy is this only possible today?Low hanging fruit for a robot chef? Salads, burgers, pizza, ice cream, coffee?What are and what were some of your big challenges?Safety, food allergies?Let's talk about data. How important is it?Where could this go? Robots in homes? Enjoy the podcast.Regards, JimCustomer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Dave and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to find out more about check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Dave, here is his LinkedIn profile. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Dexai Robotics, Robot Chefs, Cooking Robots, Robots as a service, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast

Welcome to podcast #63. Chad Ramsey is the Director of Automation for Ehrhardt Automation Systems. He often talks about #test, #quality, #assembly, #automation, and #processimprovement. Chad is also an expert in automated press integration. Some of the questions that I ask Chad: I know it sounds like an obvious question, but why do companies want to reduce risk? What are the most common ways that manufacturers can reduce the risk in automation? What can you do with your staff to reduce culture issues, esp if they have never been exposed to automation. Let’s dig into the specification document. Perhaps you are a manufacturer and have no idea how to start? What do you do? What is an engineering study, and how do you approach it? Who owns the IP and why/how can this save money for automation? How much does an engineering study cost? We have spoken before about project management when it comes to automation. How important is this before the project gets let? Legal NDAs etc, as long lead time items. Enjoy the podcast. Regards, Jim Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Chad and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to find out more about Ehrhardt Automation Systems, check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Chad, here is his LinkedIn profile. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ehrhardt Automation Systems, reducing risk in automation, Chad Ramsey, concurrent engineering study, risk assessment, proof of concept, engineering study, communication, project management.

Hello everyone, and welcome to this special edition of #the Robot Industry Podcast. My guest for this edition is Jim Carroll. Jim Carroll is one of the world's leading futurist, trends and innovation experts, with a massive Blue Chip client list. Over the last 25 years, Jim has shared his insight with more than 2 million people in attendance at his events. Jim's client list is extensive and covers virtually every industry sector, including the World Bank, Volvo, NASA, PGA of America, the Walt Disney Organization, the World Government Summit in Dubai, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the Wall Street Journal, National Australia Bank, WorldSkills, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson & hundreds more. We are talking about the future of automation, manufacturing, farming, innovation and AI. Follow Jim on Twitter @jimcarroll disruption@jimcarroll.com and jimcarroll.com and manufacturing@jimcarroll.com Enjoy the podcast. Regards, Jim Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Jim and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: #therobotindustrypodcast, Futurist Jim Carroll, Painted Robot, A3 The Robot Industry Podcast, Customer Attraction

Costas Charalambous is the Technical Sales Manager at Zimmer Group US Inc, which is based in Hickory North Carolina. He has almost 25 years' experience in the automation industry, mostly working with grippers and other end-of-arm tooling. Current Trends Toward more flexible End Effectors and End of Arm Tooling Gives Industrial Robots a Helping Hand. Zimmer Group US is a subsidiary of Zimmer Group GmbH, based in Rheinau Germany. Founded over 40 years ago, they one of the industry leaders in handling technology, particularly grippers, linear clamping and braking products, as well as industrial damping components. Here are some of the questions that I asked Costas on the pod: What is happening in end of arm tools? Are you seeing any short, medium or long-term trends? How has COVID-19 affected automation companies? Are you working differently? EOAT trends during the pandemic? EOAT in general Trends: smaller, bigger, smarter? What industries are keeping you busy today? Complex EOAT or simple? Can you tell me and our audience about MATCH? The Future: Are End effectors getting smarter? Enjoy the podcast. Regards, Jim Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Costas and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to find out more about Zimmer Group check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Costas here is his LinkedIn profile. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: EOAT, End of Arm Tools, #therobotindustrypodcast, Costas Charlambous, Zimmer Group.

Good day everyone and welcome to this edition of A3 #therobotindustrypodcast. Welcome as well, to the future of manufacturing: it's on-demand. My guest for edition #60 of the pod is Greg Paulsen. Greg leads the Application Engineering team at Xometry, a global on-demand manufacturing marketplace. With 14 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, Greg's expertise includes additive manufacturing, machining, sheet metal, injection molding, casting, and quality assurance. Here are some of the questions that I posed to Greg in the pod: Greg, Tell me a bit about the company, you are a public company, number of employees? How does Xometry work? Idle machines are a manufacturers worst feat, you help fix this? How many customers and how many manufacturers? You are suggesting or setting a price? How does the AI engine work? How do you qualify the manufacturers on the network? How do you guarantee the quality? What happens when the price for a component is too low? How does your AI handle this? What about materials/availability, a big challenge is supply chain? Next big issue and expense for many companies is shipping, do you help here? What are your financial instruments? Your support line, what are some of the FAQs Greg, thanks for coming onto the podcast. How can people get in touch with you? Enjoy the podcast and check out Xometry's 3D printing service and CNC machining service today. Regards, Jim Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to Greg and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot. If you would like to find out more about Xometry check them out on their website, on LinkedIn and to get a hold of Greg, here is his LinkedIn profile. If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: on demand manufacturing, Xometry, Greg Paulsen, and #therobotindustrypodcast.

I welcome Milton Guerry from Schunk USA for this episode of The Robot Industry Podcast. Milton is a busy man. He is involved on committee work with the Robot Industry Association, the umbrella organization of A3 Association for Advancing Automation as well as IFR, International Federation of Robotics, and leading Schunk in the USA. Automation has stepped up is the theme of the podcast today. We talk about the technology of gripping and clamping The new robots: Collaborative technologies and the evolution revolution The new technologies: Van der Waall principle of adhesion gripper: ADHESO Reaching new industries: food, electrical vehicles, packaging, and others Keeping automation simple Bundling smarter software tools by packaging tooling for automation integrators and end users Apprenticeship, next generation workforce development, talent development, and working with colleges and competitors Enjoy the podcast! Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our Milton and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot If you would like to find out more about Schunk, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile you can find Milton on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/milton-guerry-0036615/ If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Schunk, innovation, Milton Guerry, end of arm tools, EOAT, clamping, gripping, robotics, robots, workforce development, skills gap, apprenticeships, Morrisville, #therobotindustrypodcast.

Do you know what machines dream of? To finally see the world in motion! Svorad Štolc is the sensor division CTO at Photoneo. He is an expert in 3D Machine imaging, machine vision, artificial intelligence and parallel computing. In 2001 he gained a masters degree at Comenius University in Bratislava - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics and he earned PhD. degree in 2009 jointly at Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Technical University of Košice. For several years, he worked at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna, where he led a research group focused on computational photography and 3D sensing. During this time he published a number of internationally awarded scientific articles. At Photoneo, Svorad is responsible for research and development of the company's 3D sensing technology. In the podcast we talk about innovation in 3d machine vision as well as: Standard Structured Light - Spatial Multiplexing of Light Parallel Structured Light - Temporal Multiplexing of Shutter Photoneo has picked up some impressive hardware for their innovations including the VISION Award 2018, Vision Innovators Award Bronze 2018 and Platinum 2019, inVISION Top Innovation 2019 and 2021, as well as IEEE, IERA Award 2020. Thanks to Michal and to Zuzana at Photoneo for putting this interview together. If you are building a system and would like to get in touch with Photoneo you can find them at https://www.photoneo.com/ Enjoy the podcast! Jim B Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Key words and terms for this podcast: Photoneo, Machine Vision, 3D, A3 Association for Advancing Automation, Ehrhardt Automation Systems #therobotindustrypodcast.

I am thrilled to welcome David Dechow to The Robot Industry Podcast. David L. Dechow is a globally recognized expert in the integration of machine vision, robotics, and industrial automation technologies. He is the Principal Vision Systems Architect for Integro Technologies Corp., where he performs application evaluation and design of complex automated imaging solutions for inspection, metrology, and robotic guidance. Prior to his position at Integro, he was Staff Engineer for Intelligent Robotics/Machine Vision at FANUC, and earlier was the founder, owner, and principal engineer for two successful systems integration firms. His career in machine vision and industrial automation spans more than thirty-five years. Mr. Dechow is a recipient of the AIA's Automated Imaging Achievement Award honoring industry leaders for outstanding career contributions in industrial and/or scientific imaging. He is a member of the Association for Advancing Automation Imaging Technology Strategy Board, and is contributing editor for Vision Systems Design magazine, and technical advisory board member with Saccade Vision Ltd. As a key educator within the industry, David has participated in the training of hundreds of engineers as an instructor with the A3 Certified Vision Professional program. He also is well known for his frequent informative technical articles, papers, webinars, and conference sessions and classes covering a wide range of technical topics involving machine vision and enabling technologies in industrial automation. Thanks to our Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Integro-Technologies, here is the link to their site https://www.integro-tech.com/ you can find David on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddechow/ In the podcast, we start off by talking about Integro Technologies, where David hangs his hat. My questions include: Diversity of machine vision Getting the challenging and difficult automation jobs What is happening in machine vision currently Enabling technology of computer vision: feeding the data and AI Chasing new technologies When vision systems fail What is happening in camera and hardware advancement Inspecting French Fries (again) Hyperspectral, infrared and near infrared technology Reducing the risk with machine vision applications AI and Deep Learning explained Enjoy the podcast! Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast Thanks to our David and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation and PaintedRobot If you would like to find out more about Integro, here is the link to their LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/company/integro-technologies-corporation/ you can find David on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddechow/ If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would li

Welcome to episode #55 of The Robot Industry Podcast. My guest for this episode is Jeff Mahler, from Ambi Robotics. Dr. Mahler is the CTO and co-founder of Ambi Robotics. He received his PhD in AI and robotics from the University of California, Berkeley for his work with Prof. Ken Goldberg on the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net), a state-of-the-art method for rapidly teaching robots to pick up items they've never been trained on before. His robot vision research has appeared in The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, and Forbes, and has been nominated for numerous awards at international research conferences including Best Manipulation Paper and Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper. Jeff also holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. While there, he was the co-founder and lead computer vision engineer at Lynx Labs, a 3D scanning startup that was acquired by Occipital in 2015. Here are some of the questions that we talk about in this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast: What do you do at Ambi robotics? How did you get started? Who is your ideal customer? What is their big problem? Are you robot agnostic? What is adaptable AI? How do you use simulation software? Which one? How important is data for your customers? What other problems do you solve than just picking and placing? Robots as a service, data, kitting, packing and pick and place. Partners and contract manufacturing with DWFRITZ company Thanks to our Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Ambi Robotics, here is the link to their site https://www.ambirobotics.com/ and you can find Jeff on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-mahler-64b56138/ and you can email him at jeff@ambirobotics.com Enjoy the podcast! Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ambi Robotics, Ambidexterous Robotics, Warehouse automation, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Adaptable AI, AmbiOS, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Jim Beretta, parcel sorting robots, Pitney Bowes, A3, DWFRITZ, Dexterity Network, #therobotindustrypodcast.

Chris Tur is President & CEO of Roboworld. He is a Robotic protection expert, patent holder and a TEDx presenter and a really interesting guy. Chris has worked in marketing for GE Aviation, business operations for GE Energy and Global Product Manager for GE Lighting. He has been involved in protecting robots for over 30 years and now has expanded to protecting robot teach pendents. In this edition of A3 the #robotindustrypodcast we talk about: Why protect robots? What are we protecting? Protecting teach pendants (which are very expensive to replace) with Pendant Armour Becoming a fabric expert to protect robots and robot seals What are the worst environments that Roboworld has designed protection against? Flowing air into a robot suit Technical materials that get used include Kevlar, Hypalon, Norfab (Aluminized Kevlar), Teflon, Environments and elements that Roboworld protects against: Splatter, slurry, slag, heat, cold, humidity, sandblasting, abrasives, investment casting, bacteria, caustic wash downs environments and even corrosion inhibitors. Thanks to our Chris, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Roboworld, here is the link to their site: https://roboworld.com/ and you can find them on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/roboworld/ Enjoy the podcast! Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Roboworld, robot suits, robot protection, robot covers, robot jackets, teach pendant protectors, Pendant Armour, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Jim Beretta, A3 #therobotindustrypodcast.

The big topic of interoperability is a big challenge for the robotic industry and something that Meili is aiming to fix. Meili Robots is based in Copenhagen, Denmark is a startup company that provides a universal fleet management system for mobile robots. Their focus is in distribution centers and the last mile of delivery. The promise of Meili is to control your fleet of various robot types and makes on one platform, with automated allocation of jobs to the robots. The company is robot agnostic, and they don't care what is being transported. Aldus von der Burg is the founder and CEO. In our conversation we talk about: The last mile of automation The advantage of being a startup and being robot agnostic The future of data The challenge of overlapping software in the autonomous robot deployment space Fun fact: Meili Robots is named after the lesser-known brother of the Norse god Thor, and allegedly the god of travel. If you are operating a distribution center and would like to get in touch with Meili or Aldus, you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldus-von-der-burg-15287941/ and if you would like to find out more about the company, https://www.linkedin.com/company/meilirobots/ and https://www.meilirobots.com/about and info@meilirobots.com Thanks to our Aldus, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast! Jim Beretta | Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Key words and terms for this podcast: AGVs, AMR, Autonomous Mobile Robot, The Last Mile of Delivery, Robots, Meili Robots, Aldus von der Burg, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, #therobotindustrypodcast, info@meilirobots.com

Jeff Huerta is the Vice President of Sales at Vecna Robotics, a Boston based software company that helps retail and distribution companies automate their facilities. Jeff brings more than 15 years of automation leadership experience to Vecna Robotics, with a strong track record of building world-class sales operations. Prior to joining Vecna Robotics, Jeff was Vice President of North America Sales at Balyo, where he led the go-to-market strategy for the company's self-guided trucks. Previously, Jeff held sales and marketing positions with SICK, where he managed and developed the OEM packaging sales team for the North American market. Vecna Robotics delivers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions featuring self-driving vehicles operated by their learning Autonomy Stack. Their solutions deliver value for customers in the distribution, e-commerce, warehousing, and manufacturing sectors. Their unique orchestration engine technology, Pivot.al, allows diverse robot types and humans to work together seamlessly and to flexibly yield an adaptive business solution, capable of meeting the increasingly unpredictable market needs. Vecna's technology goes beyond traditional automation and focuses on maximizing human and robot capability to create fulfilling jobs, increase productivity, and encourage innovation. We talk about: Following The Pallet. The challenge of attracting and retaining forklift drivers New forklift drivers and the opposite of an UBER driver Ergonomics and safety The boring task of sitting on a forklift, 8 hours a day 24 month payback in Autonomous Mobile Robot Industry The importance of collecting and reporting data The future of forklift autonomous industry: sensors and software Vecna only builds their automation around new fork lifts, they partner with OEMs to build the robots. If you are operating a material handling and would like to get in touch with Matt, you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-huerta-3463b030/ and if you would like to find out more about the company, https://www.linkedin.com/company/vecna-robotics/ and https://www.vecnarobotics.com/connect/ Thanks to our Jeff, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot (dot com) and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast! Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated man

Designing Robots is hard. Building them shouldn't be. This is the topic of our podcast today. My guest today for the podcast is Matt Wicks. Matt has more than 25 years of experience in the robotics industry with expertise in the areas of logistics systems, motion and industrial controls and software integration for large scale manufacturing and distribution systems. He has extensive experience in the field of advanced robotic solution development, including robotic solution integration and design. Matt is a thought leader in the robotics industry, holds numerous robotics patents and is a featured speaker at various robotics industry events. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla (Missouri S&T) and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Missouri. He currently serves on the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) Board of Directors and as the Chairman of the Robotics Industry Association (RIA) Board of Directors. Matt's job is to engage and attract robot companies to have Celestica build their robots for them on an outsourced basis. If you haven't heard about Toronto based Celestica, Celestica enables the world's leading brands. Through their customer-centric approach, they partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their customers most complex challenges. Celestica is a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With teams across North America, Europe and Asia, they imagine, develop and deliver a better future with their customers. Celestica is a publicly traded company on NYSE: CLS and on TSE: CLS in Toronto. Celestica has approximately 28,000 employees and is controlled by Onex Corporation. In the podcast, we talk about the use cases, electronic documentation, supply chain, driving costs out of robotics and why robots are so difficult to manufacture at production level scale. We talk about when companies need to outsource their robot builds and also talk about the startup community. If you are building a robot and would like to get in touch with Matt, you can find him https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrwicks/ you would like to find out more about the company, Celestica, https://www.linkedin.com/company/celestica/ Thanks to our Matt, and his Toronto based marketing team at Celestica HQ: Crystal Wong, Nicki Lakhani, Sandra Moretti, our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot (dot com) and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast! Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision

I caught up with Sam Bouchard, CEO of Robotiq based out of Montreal. He started Robotiq with his co-founders: JP and Vincent in 2008. Their motivation was that they could bring something better to the industry. But 2008 and 2009 was a difficult time in manufacturing industry for any business, let alone a startup robot accessory company. Flexibility was at their core, and their first product was a three finger gripper that came out of the Laval Robotics Lab, developed for the nuclear industry and the Canada Arm. They eventually simplified the gripper for industrial applications and at the same time the collaborative robots hit the market. Topics discussed in the pod: Applications: machine tending, palletizing, assembly Flexibility and ease of use, manipulation and force control, sensing. Robotiq's DOF Degrees of Freedom online community, for sharing manufacturing know how. e learning on the Robotiq website - how to build cobot applications LeanRobotics.org Robotiq's innovation and approach includes deep customer listening, prototyping, with a focus on iteration We talk about Montreal as being a center of innovation robotics and labs and now commercialization from those early investments with companies such as Vention, Mechademic Sam sees a bright future with collaborative robots with a shortage of people and robot programmers. Thanks to our Sam Bouchard for coming onto the podcast, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, www.PaintedRobot.com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast! Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of robotics, automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Key words and terms for this podcast: Sam Bouchard, https://www.robotiq.com, lean startups, palletizing, collaborative robots, cobots, Robotiq, DOF, Degrees of Freedom Sam Bouchard has written a book called Lean Robotics: A Guide to Making Robots Work in Your Factory you can get it here: https://www.amazon.ca/Lean-Robotics-Making-Robots-Factory-ebook/dp/B075VCLT8G

How do autonomous robot companies - and robot integrators get to market and get to scale? They call Go West Robotics. Thanks go to Gerry Ens, CTO and Alex Irwin, CEO for joining me on #TheRobotIndustryPodcast. We talk about customer onboarding, implementation, research, project management, software architecture, deployment, and technical needs for software at robot companies. At Go West Robotics, they have a single focus value proposition: they are able to hit the ground running creating control software and operating software in autonomous and industrial robotics. From early code to scaling code, version control and processes to go industrial. Project management and the customer experience are of critical importance to Alex and Gerry. It is one of their differentiators. Like many successful companies, engagement early is critical. Some of the trends that they are seeing are: PLC and making sure that PLCs are used correctly and not over-used Linex based development languages Speed of development, maintainability Cloud technologies and open source Shoehorning complex software into PLC HMIs OEE on the fly, from anywhere in the cloud If you would like to get in touch with Gerry or Alex, you can find them https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexirwin/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardens/ Their website is https://www.gowestrobotics.com/ Thanks to our Gerry Ens, Alex Irwin and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot dot com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast! Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Key words and terms for this podcast: Autonomous robotics, automation systems software, self-driving robots, outsourced software development, machine tool companies, robotics, HMI, Industrial PC, OEE, Predictive Maintenance, Custom Software

My guests for this podcast are Lloyd Arnold from Asyril and Stan Glaxer from Mecademic Robotics. Lloyd Arnold is Product Marketing Manager from Asyril, Switzerland he has 15 years working with automation products across all industries and is a product specialist in machine vision and 3D bin picking. Lloyd has a strong passion for application solving, born out of beginning his career as an Application Engineer. He has just relocated his family from the UK to Switzerland last year during the lockdown to work for Asyril. Stan Gleizer is Director, Applications and Support at Mecademic Robotics. He has a background in Mechatronics and has worked with industrial robots for the past 8 years in aerospace and automotive, with a focus on high precision applications around vision and force feedback. He has always wanted to work for a robot OEM, so when he heard about a robot manufacturer starting up in Montreal, he was thrilled to join Mecademic. This podcast is recorded in Montreal, PQ, London, Ontario and Villaz-St-Pierre in Switzerland. Mecademic develops and manufactures the world's smallest and most precise six-axis industrial robot arm and Asyril are experts in flexible feeding systems, especially in small parts. They manufacture a line of products called Asycube and EYE+ an AI powered controller. Asyril was born out of the watch industry and has it's roots out of academia. A fun fact is that both companies have their roots in academia. In this edition of #TheRobotIndustryPodcast we discuss: Small part manipulationMiniature industrial robotsPrecision, accuracy in robotics and automationAutomation and part feeding in the watch manufacturing industry, medical device, electronics industriesFlexible feeding equipmentDesktop factory and miniaturization in precision manufacturingThe high cost of space in modern manufacturing If you would like to get in touch with Stan, you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stangleizer and if you would like to get a hold of Lloyd he is also on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloydwarnold Thanks to our Lloyd Arnold, Stan Gleizer, Asyril, Mecademic and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot dot com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast! Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Key words and terms for this podcast: Asyril, Mecademic, Lloyd Arnold, Stan

My guest today is Liz Stortstrom from Hewlett Packard. Liz Stortstrom is a 3D Printing Application Engineer with expertise in using HP's Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) Technology for industrial applications. She has a background in Mechanical Design and joined HP to support the development of the JF500 series. She now utilizes that experience to find optimal solutions for customers aiming to push their businesses to the next level with additive manufacturing. Liz received her BS & MS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and currently resides in Portland, OR. I first met Derek from HP at the ATX Anaheim show a few years ago, pre-COVID and was really impressed with the robot End of Arm Tools that they had on display. For this installment on #TheRobotIndustryPodcast we are going to talk about 3D printed End of Arm tools and the efficacy of using printed tools as robot end effectors, where they fit and how integrators and robot designers can get started. Here are some of the questions that we will discuss on the pod: 3D printing has come a long way in the past few years, I remember seeing all kinds of early EOATs, what has happened along the way? Improvements? From a high level, what are some of the big advantages for 3d printed eoats? Are there particular industries that might be better suited to 3D EOATs, packaging? Geographies? What are people picking up with 3d printed EOATs from HPs perspective.Do you have some USE cases that you can talk about? What are some of the challenges? Thin walled designs? Leaking in the air lines? Educating mechanical designers? Supply chain professionals, etc. Printing in color, can you tell where this can be an advantage? When do I buy a printer vs using a service bureau? If you would like to get in touch with Liz you can find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizstortstrom/ or if you have a 3D or additive application, https://hp.pathfactory.com/us-en-3dprint-industrial-robotics-eoat Thanks to our Liz, and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot.com and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Enjoy the podcast, Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Key words and terms for this podcast: 3D, HP, EOAT, Liz Stortstrom, 3D Printed End of Arm Tools, additive manufacturing, ATX West Anaheim