The within scoop on meals manufacturing with Chef Robotics

In Episode 152 of The Robotic Report Podcast, editors Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman talk about 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 way of the inception of the firm and the way he has damaged down the varied 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 gadgets.

The second function on the present in the present day is an interview hosted by Meaghan Ziemba, host of Professionals 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 talk about the Girls in Robotics Breakfast on the Robotics Summit and the MassRobotics Jumpstart program. which helps native highschool ladies 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 no 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 whole was considerably lower than the trailing 12-month common of $1.1 billion.
         • Collaborative Robotics’ $100 million Collection B spherical was April’s largest funding. As its title 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, firms situated within the U.S. and China obtained the most important 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 protection lidar market with a brand new obstacle-detecting sensor.
      3. Tangram Imaginative and prescient creates lidar comparability software
         • If you happen to’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 easier. The startup, which is constructing software program and {hardware} for robotic notion, launched an interactive software known as “Spinning LiDAR Visualizer” that lets customers evaluate spinning lidar fashions.
         • Customers can evaluate 28 sensors from main producers corresponding to Hesai, Ouster, Quanergy, RoboSense, and Velodyne. The visualizer permits them to pick out one or two sensors to research and evaluate most vary, vary at 10% reflectivity, angular decision, and area of view. You possibly can click on and drag for various viewpoints, embed the software someplace else, and even modify it on GitLab.