The Robot Industry Podcast

Pittsburgh-based Gather AI is the world leading autonomous inventory management company. Their solution uses autonomous, commodity drones and AI software to automate inventory monitoring for warehouse operators to decrease inventory costs, improve productivity, and boost revenue. Hello everyone and welcome to A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast. We are glad you are here I am Jim Beretta. My guest for this episode is Sankalp Arora. Sankalp is from Gather AI they are a startup company that develops autonomous data gathering drones or UAVs for the supply chain industry. Their mission is to provide reliable, efficient, and scalable solutions for inventory management, warehouse optimization, and asset tracking using cutting-edge technologies and algorithms. Let me tell you a bit about Sankalp: As a robotics expert, he has a strong background in motion planning, computer vision, machine learning, and data analysis. Sankalp holds a PhD in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he has worked on flying field robotics systems and published multiple papers at conferences. Fun fact that he also received the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for his innovative research proposal. Sankalp is passionate about solving real-world problems using robotics and AI, and building a diverse and talented team that shares this vision. My Questions: Sankalp, How important is it for you to be in Pittsburgh? Let’s talk about your team. Tell me about them? What are some of the challenges flying drones in warehouses? Use cases, examples? What do your clients learn about their warehouse? You must have some best practices for your clients, like labels must be able to be read by a drone…etc. The importance of data, is your startup is all about data? Who operates the drone? What is they typical ROI for your clients Who buys from you, how do they buy or test, what is the selling cycle like? Did we forget to talk about anything? When you are not thinking about drones and stock keeping, what do you like to do, hobbies? How can people get a hold of you? When you are not knee deep in software, drones, hardware and growing your team, what do you like to do for fun? Thanks for coming onto the podcast. How can people find out more about you/your company? Enjoy the podcast. Thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening. Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast To find out more about Gather AI, visit their website or check them out on LinkedIn. To check out Sankalp, you can find him on LinkedIn here. Special thanks to Amanda Bell for getting this setup for both of us. I know @Amanda sometimes it is like herding cats! If you would like to get involved with A3 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 therobotindustrypodcast at gmail dot com, no spaces. Ehrhardt Automation is our sponsor. Ehrhardt builds and commissions robot and custom turnkey automated s...

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 [email protected] Keywords and terms for this podcast: Fizyr, Deep Learning Vision Software, Herbert ten Have #Netherlands #Delft #therobotindustrypodcast

I have been a big fan of QNX Operating System for many years, since my early days at ATS Automation Tooling Systems in Cambridge, ON. We needed real time OS for some of the complex machines we were building. QNX filled the bill and more. QNX is now owned by Blackberry now, yes the company that brought us some of the first cell phones! Jim Hirsch joins me today for this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast. With over 25 years in Software sales experience in the Federal, Aerospace & Defense, Industrial Automation, Medical Device and Telecommunications and Automotive markets. Innovative executive with leadership experience ranging from startups to fortune 100 companies. Extensive experience spanning software & solution sales, business development, executive relationships, strategic partnerships, compliance management in a number of vertical markets. His career spans US Navy, Raytheon, multiple successful startups (IPO & acquired), Cadence Design Systems, Wind River Systems, Intel and Ansys. Here are some of my questions to Jim: Who is QNX, what is their history? How did the company get started? What is a real time operating system?  Where can I find QNX in what industries? The current owners of QNX is Blackberry, correct? Are automobiles more and more powered by QNX, what does it do in my car? For some of our listeners, what is LINIX? What is Latency? I know that there are a lot of things that you cannot talk about, but I suspect that you are working with NVIDIA, defense, humanoid and surgical robotics? Do you have a few examples or use cases of where QNX is being used? Startup companies are an important part of your ecosystem, why is that? What os QNIX everywhere program? I know that we have talked about safety security, people and safe > are these things keeping your customers up at night? I see that QNX is very active in education, why is that? FDA and security and the remediation of end of life software You have a new report that is just about to come out, can you give us a sneak peek? How do you hire for talent? HQ is in Ottawa, correct Did we forget about anything Hobbies? How can people get a hold of you? Thx to Matthew Chandler for helping set up this interview, he is global communications at QNX Blackberry. Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffrey Bremner for audio production, and my business partner Janet.  Special thx to my Senior Audio Software Engineer, Geoff Bremner and you can find more information on his Linketree: linktr.ee/gbaudio Be safe out the...

Hello Everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, #Automate2026 edition. My friend Chris Round and new friend Kojo are joining me for podcast #162. We are talking about sensors and Leuze is one of the premier safety sensor manufacturers in Europe. Who is Leuze, what do you make? What is a sensor? If I open one up what will I see? What are people interested in sensing? Is there a trend? How are you different? What is happening in sensing from a high-level perspective? Data question. How do people buy sensors? Distribution or direct? Who do you sell to? Are they machine builders or end customers, end users? What are customers looking for, and what is keeping them up at night? Any other trends? Are people spending more money? Do you also provide any other devices for sensing like cables or sensor brackets? What is the future of sensing? Automate question, what are you showing at the booth? Goals for the show? What is your booth #? Let me know what is missing? Leuze Electronic, Inc. 2150 Northmont Parkway, Suite N Duluth, GA 30096 Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffrey Bremner for audio production, and my business partner Janet.  And I would like to thank my Senior Audio Software Engineer, Geoff Bremner and you can find more information on his Linketree, linktr.ee/gbaudio Be safe out there! Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast London, ON

Welcome to #157 of TRIP, The Robot Industry Podcast. I met up with Matt in Windsor during the Windsor-Essex' Emerging Technologies in Automation & Mobility Transformation Conference & Trade Show. Matthew Hortop, P.E. is a Technical Specialist for all Things Electrification. AVL is his employer and they are a 12,000-person company focused on powertrains. They don't make engines or inverters, they help customers doing the technology development. Batteries have become an important part of the automotive industry, including the drivetrain. AVL https://www.avl.com/en/engineering/e-mobility-engineering/battery-development-electric-vehicles Some of the questions that I asked Matt: How did you get into the industry? What do you do? What do you have for an automotive OEM? The speed of the battery industry? How do you support your customers? You can find out more about the organizers (Invest Windsor Essex) at https://www.emergingtechnologies.ca/ or at https://www.investwindsoressex.com/. If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/ Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffrey Bremner for audio production and my business partner Janet. And I would like to thank my Senior Audio Software Engineer, Geoff Bremner and you can find more information on his Linketree, linktr.ee/gbaudio Be safe out there! Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast London, ON