The within scoop on meals manufacturing with Chef Robotics

In Episode 152 of The Robotic Report Podcast, editors Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman focus on the information of the week. Our featured visitor on the present this week is Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO of Chef Robotics.

Bhageria takes us by means of the inception of the firm and the way he has damaged down the assorted workflows within the industrial kitchen. Chef Robotics is concentrated on meals manufacturing, deploying automation to the duties of filling ready-to-cook, ready meals with particular person meals objects.

The second function on the present immediately is an interview hosted by Meaghan Ziemba, host of Experts of Manufacturing and Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and chief of operations at MassRobotics. This interview occurred reside on the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston.

Ziemba and Sidopoulos focus on the Girls in Robotics Breakfast on the Robotics Summit and the MassRobotics Jumpstart program. which helps native highschool women to find a profession in excessive tech and robotics. Additionally they chat about how MassRobotics is supporting the regional robotics startup ecosystem.

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Within the information this week

1. 1. 1. Robotics investments prime $466M in April 2024
         • Robotics investments reached not less than $466 million in April 2024, the results of 36 funding rounds. The April investments determine lagged latest months and was the smallest quantity since November 2023. Final month’s funding complete was considerably lower than the trailing 12-month common of $1.1 billion.
         • Collaborative Robotics’ $100 million Sequence B spherical was April’s largest funding. As its identify implies, the California-based agency is creating collaborative robots and enabling software program for his or her use. China’s Rokae, a supplier of collaborative and industrial robots, secured $70 million in April.
         • As with earlier months, corporations situated within the U.S. and China obtained the biggest funding quantities, $239 million and $115 million, respectively. Corporations primarily based within the U.S. (14) and China (9) additionally obtained the vast majority of the spherical.
      2. Sonair sensor launch
         • The Norwegian-based sensor firm decloaked this week to announce the provision of analysis kits for its new ultrasonic sensor.
         • Sonair is making an attempt to disintermediate the security lidar market with a brand new obstacle-detecting sensor.
      3. Tangram Imaginative and prescient creates lidar comparability device
         • In case you’re trying to find a lidar sensor so as to add to your robotic, Tangram Imaginative and prescient desires to make your analysis course of less complicated. The startup, which is constructing software program and {hardware} for robotic notion, launched an interactive device referred to as “Spinning LiDAR Visualizer” that lets customers evaluate spinning lidar fashions.
         • Customers can evaluate 28 sensors from main producers comparable to Hesai, Ouster, Quanergy, RoboSense, and Velodyne. The visualizer permits them to pick one or two sensors to research and evaluate most vary, vary at 10% reflectivity, angular decision, and subject of view. You possibly can click on and drag for various viewpoints, embed the device some other place, and even modify it on GitLab.