How does a company deal with becoming politicized? Boston Dynamics contract with ICE has employees outraged. Plus Newton’s 1st Law vs 2nd and other insights from the leading edge of robotics deployments.
Nominations extended for IEEE RAS Awards (products/companies/innovation), Wildfire XPrize Winners, Women in Robotics you need to know about, plus apply for SVR Startup Pitch Showcase and all the latest news in Robots & Startups
I’m pretty amazed by the Long Horizon speaker roster - everytime I check the website it’s still growing. This event is rapidly becoming “the rooms where it happens” for robotics... plus lots of hallway conversation opportunities.
"When we introduce AI into our deterministic systems, it doesn’t mean that it replaces them, it means that it works with those deterministic systems." Brandon Hootman, Caterpillar at FullyConnected
Plus Agility Investor Day, Fort IPO, RealSense and RAI acquisitions,
Some IPOs to look forward to are Agility and FORT Robotics going public, via reverse merger. Agility’s Investor and Analyst Day is Tuesday October 6th. Agility and FORT Robotics also just announced a strategic partnership to advance humanoid robot safety.
I'm really excited to be attending both days of the Long Horizon summit. There are already six hundred high-profile registrations from companies including Skild, Wayve (including Chief Scientist, Jamie Shotton), Boston Dynamics, Bear Robotics (CEO and CTO), Mercedes-Benz, and others.
9/11 and the development of disaster robots plus robots as entertainment and companions, or potentially sneaky spies. So many interesting stories in robotics this week!
