Nag Murty, CEO and cofounder of Electrical Sheep, and Michael Laskey, CTO of Electrical Sheep be a part of the present this week to debate how Electrical Sheep is disrupting the industrial landscaping business with autonomous cell robots and a novel enterprise mannequin. The corporate is leveraging AI to allow autonomous mowers to chop the grass whereas simplifying the deployment course of within the subject.
Electrical Sheep can be vertically integrating the market phase by the acquisition of economic landscaping companies, then coaching the sphere workforce and integrating the autonomous mowers within the every day workflow for the sphere groups whereas studying and adapting the product.
Episode Timeline
18:10 Interview with Electrical Sheep CEO and cofounder Nag Murty, together with CTO Michael Laskey.
Within the information this week
- The January funding report is out and robotics firms raised $578M in January 2024.
- Robotics investments totaled $578 million in January 2024 as the results of 46 funding rounds. This determine was considerably decrease than the trailing twelve-month common, however in step with January 2023’s determine of $523 million.
- The most important robotics funding in January 2024 was a $100 million spherical secured by Norway-based 1X, a developer of humanoids (See Desk 1 beneath). Chinese language humanoid developer Robotic Period raised $14 million in February.
- Makers of autonomous cell robots (AMRs) for agricultural operations had been nicely represented amongst February’s robotics investments. Examples embody Bluewhite ($39 million), Burro ($24 million), Saga Robotics ($11.5 million), farm-ng ($10M), and Ant Robotics ($2 million).
- Corporations primarily based in america raised $154 million in January 2024, whereas Norway, buoyed by the $100 million 1X funding, positioned third amongst international locations with $113 million in funding.
- Anyware Robotics pronounces new add-on conveyor for Pixmo unloading robots
- The patent-pending articulating conveyor simplifies
- Waymo robotaxis accepted for fared rides in LA, additionally considerably expanded working space across the SF peninsula, together with a reported path to the airport.
- Additionally launches totally driverless rides for workers in Austin; will start shuttling workers round 43 sq. miles of the Texas capital.
- Veteran tech exec Peggy Johnson named Agility Robotics CEO
- Agility Robotics co-founder Damion Shelton has served as CEO because the firm’s founding in 2015. Shelton will now be the corporate’s president and a part of Johnson’s management staff.