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Filwaqt li il-battalja is raging fost manifatturi, Agility Robotic, with its leading bipedal gait technology and the support of a group of luxury capital behind it, has built its own large-scale factory and worked in the field to enter the list of "star unicorns" of humanoid robots. With the commercialization of the footsteps approaching, the company's senior camp is issa a new shock.
Fi Marzu 2024, Agility Robotics fundatur Damion Shelton stepped down and was replaced by seasoned heavyweight Peggy Johnson, adding more troops to the commercialization battle. what does the change of blood after February mean? Where is the commercialization journey of humanoid robots headed?
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Fi il-passat, robotika teknoloġija ippermetta il grad grad ta awtomazzjoni in avvanzat manifattura biex żieda, iżda hemm għad ħafna proċessi li ma jistgħux jkun kompletament awtomatizzati u jesiġu uman intervent, filwaqt li l-kontinu żieda in in xogħol spejjeż u u l-ispejjeż dejjem aktar prominenti nieqes ta' skilled ħaddiema have ukoll ġabu enormi pressjoni fuq intrapriżi.
Fi dan kuntest, ġdid robots li jista' parzjalment jissostitwixxi uman lab ħarġu ħarġu. B'differenza preċedenti industrijali robots, ġodda robots huma ħafna flessibbli u kollaborattivi, u jistgħu jaħdmu bla xkiel bnedmin in kumplessi ambjenti, b' bnedmin kumplessi ambjenti, with humanoid robots seens as the most promising category and the "big winner" of the current AI wave.
Agility Robotics' path to humanoid robotics started in 2015.
Fi il bidu, reliying on the founder's research background at Carnegie Mellon University, the company focused on the breakthrough of bipedal walking technology at the beginning, and launched the first bipedal humanoid robot Digit in 2019.
Ċifra is 1.75m tall u weighs 65kg, and compared to the humanoid leg type used by other humanoid robots, Digit adopts the structure of ostrich legs, li jipprovdi a a akbar appoġġ area and load-bearing capacity, and can lift up 16kg of weight. In addition, Digit is equipped with a large number of sensors, combined with AI algorithms can walk and plan routes autonomously in complex environments, and collaborate with human staff to complete handling, loading loading and unloading and other operational tasks.
Ċifra attirat a lott ta' attenzjoni peress li tagħha introduzzjoni, li tirrifletti l-applikazzjoni wiesgħa prospetti ta' humanoid robots in the industrial field. 2020, Digit signed a cooperation agreement with Ford Motor Company, planning to use it in the last-mile delivery scenarios of the car factory logistics.
Għalkemm dan pjan kien aktar tard xkaffar, it ukoll imqanqal Agility Robotics to shift its focus to general-purpose scenarios in the warehousing and logistics industry, paving the way for later commercialization.
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Kummerċjalizzazzjoni dejjem kien l-akbar sfida għal Agility Robotics, and for the humanoid robot industry as a whole. After all, compared with industrial robots, humanoid robots have a higher technological threshold, greater costs, and a lack of scale to support the landing scenarios.
Agility Robotics was established so far, a total of four rounds of financing, the financing process to the B round, the cumulative amount raised $178 million (about 1.29 billion yuan), shareholders include Sony, DCVC, Playground Global, Amazon and other well-known companies.
Fost them, in addition to the financial support of Amazon in 2022 in the B round of $150 million financing, but also since 2023 on the pilot use of Digit robots in the warehouse system. And from the pilot, Digit been able to take on more than 98% of repetittiv lifting jobs thanks to its physical strength, endurance, cost and accuracy.
Domanda ukoll wassal Agility Robotika biex jaċċellera il-pass pass tiegħu kapaċità espansjoni.
Fi Settembru 2023, il-kumpanija miftuħa Robofab, its first robotics manufacturing facility with a capacity of up 10,{000 units per year, in Salem, Oregon.Bil the factory up and running, Agility Robotics is on track to complete deliveries of its first Digit robots in 2024 and have a full-scale market launch by 2025, with an estimated pricing of $250,000 7d USD.
U in order to serve the company's commercialization process, the company experienced a dramatic personnel earthquake at the top.
Fi Marzu 2024, ko-fundatur Damien Shelton stepped down as CEO and sar president minflok, filwaqt li Peggy Johnson, who had come over from Qualcomm and Microsoft, was parachuted in to take on the role of the new CEO and was given the commercialization mantle of focusing on sales, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.
Imqabbel ma the founding team, li is aktar adept at technology development, Johnson is experienced and well-read in sales, marketing, and business development for tech companies, li will allow Agility Robotics to get on a more solid path to commercialization.
In addition to the change in leadership, Agility Robotics recently enacted another important personnel appointment, with veteran artificial intelligence expert Pras Velagapudi become chief technology officer, focusing on product innovation and upgrades for Digit. Meanwhile, former Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise will serve serve as Chief Product Officer and former Magic Leap Chief Commercial Officer Daniel Diez will serve as Chief Strategy Uffiċjal biex saħħaħ it-tmexxija tim.
As Chief Strategy Officer, Diez is responsible for developing Agility's overall business and go-to-market strategy, working closely with CEO Peggy Johnson. In this role, he will also lead all marketing, product marketing and communications efforts to build the company's reputation and increase awareness and demand for Digit as the company enters its Phase of rapid commercial growth.
Prior to joining Agility, Diez led the company's public transition from a consumer technology startup to an enterprise technology company at Magic Leap, where he was responsible for the commercial launch of Magic Leap 2, and served as chief marketing officer and head of product at Transform Brands, and global chief marketing officer at global marketing officer at global marketing and innovation agency R/GA, where he helped to lead the company's trasformazzjoni minn diġitali marketing aġenzija għal globali reklamar u marka trasformazzjoni ġgant.
Peress li joining Agility in May 2023 as Chief Technology Officer, Wise has transformed the way the company approaches product development as it prepares to bring its products to market at scale. In addition to leading the company's engineering and technology efforts for Digit, she created and led the team that conceptualized, built and launched Agility Arc, a cloud automation platform for deploying and managing the Digits fleet alongside oħrajn awtomazzjoni soluzzjonijiet. In the CPO's expanded role, Wise will continue to lead Agility's engineering team in addition to the newly formed product organization.
Fi tiegħu sena at Agility, Velagapudi has driven the company's AI strategy and made several breakthroughs in using AI to accelerat Digit's commercial capabilities. As CTO, Velagapudi will continue to focus on pragmatic product-related innovations, implementing the company's R&D efforts and constantly exploring new technologies with a focus on applying modern and emerging AI to achieve commercial scale.
Velagapudi għandu deċennji ta' esperjenza in robot ippjanar u kontroll, u ħolqien u użu robots fi domestiku, industrijali, u ambjenti ta' barra . Velagapudi qala' tiegħu B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as an adjunct faculty member and project scientist for several years.
The overhaul of Agility Robotics' top lineup sends a strong signal to the outside world - the company is entering a critical period of commercialization explosion, the technology is maturing, and a new force of life is urgently needed to lead marketing and business development.
Bħalissa, the humanoid robotics track is highly competitive, with the veteran humanoid robotics company Boston Dynamics, followed by Optimus, Figure, as well as a number of domestic and other up-and-comers, all stepping up the pace of breakout commercialization.
Fi il futur, relieding on artificial intelligence algorithms and sofistikati dynamic control capabilities, humanoid robots li can seamlessly collaborate with humans in scenarios with complex environments and changing tasks will make tagħhom mark in various industries.
B'mod ġenerali, humanoid robots huma dħul a perjodu ta' splussiv tkabbir, with the dawn of commercialization. In the future, we are likely to see more "steel warriors" into the factory production line, into the family life. And who will be able to commercialize humanoid robots will determine the final winner of this track.
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