The Mobile Robot Podcast

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This weekly podcast features interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Karen Leavitt, Chief Marketing Officer at Locus Robotics. Locus recently closed their $150M series E ...

Show Description:

This weekly podcast features interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Melonee Wise, CEO of Fetch Robotics. Melonee was one of the contributors to the recently released RIA...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Carole Franklin, Director of Standards Development for the RIA. Carole leads all of the standards committee work sponsored by the RIA and is intimately familiar with what it takes to bring a new standard to the market. During the podcast, Mike and Carole discuss the standards development process at the RIA and specifically, the features of the newly adopted R15.08 standard for industrial mobi...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Jeff Burnstein, President of the Association for Advancing Information (A3). A3 is now the preferred name for the umbrella organization that Jeff leads and includes some familiar organizations such as the Robotics Industry of America (RIA), Automated Imaging Association (AIA) and the Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA).  A3 produces educational webinars & trade shows, and sponso...

This weekly podcast features interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Kindred AI CEO, Marin Tchakarov. Kindred AI delivers AI-powered, piece-picking robots designed for e-commerce order fu...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews AVA Robotics Co-Founder and VP of Product, Marcio Macedo. Ava Robotics spun out of iRobot in 2016 to produce a commercial telepresence robot. The company now has a relationship with Cisco and leverages WEBEX as its core communication solution in the telepresence robot. The company recently launched a new UV Disinfection solution with the autonomous mobile base borrowed from their telepresence...

This weekly podcast features interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews GoBe Robots CEO, Peter Juhl Voldsgaard. GoBe robots is a new company, however they are not new to service robotics and...

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This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews UBTECH Americas GM, John Rhee. 

Mike and John discuss the recent announcement at CES 2021, where UBTECH launched their new UV-C Disinfection robots. UBTECH is a leading consumer robotics manufacturer, with a number of popular STEM-based robotics learning solutions. UBTECH also has an industrial and social robotics business. 

During the podcast, John Rhee introduces us to some o...

This week, host Mike Oitzman reviews his top 5 predictions for the autonomous mobile robotic market for 2021. This includes the trends that he thinks will be noteworthy over the next year. 

Mike also finishes his conversation from last weeks episode with Steve Crowe from The Robot Report. Steve and Mike discuss their predictions for 2021 and set the stage for an interesting year ahead for mobile robotics.

If you like to rea...

This week, host Mike Oitzman reviews the top mobile robot stories of 2020 with Steve Crowe, editor of The Robot Report. 

Steve is also the host of the podcast: The Robot Report Podcast, a weekly interview show that covers anything that "senses, thinks and moves".

This is a long show, so here's a topic index of the show so that you can fast forward to a section of interest:

Time    Topic

07:50    Steve Crowe reviews his f...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Seegrid Robotics VP of Product, Jeff Christensen. Seegrid was is one of the early pioneers of vision guided autonomous robots and today they continue to be a market leader for autonomous material handling solutions. 

You can find Seegrid on the web at https://seegrid.com/

The podcast is sponsored this week by The Mobile Robot Guide (https://mobilerobotguide.com/), where you can find all of the ...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews AutoGuide CEO Rob Sullivan. AutoGuide is an heavy payload autonomous mobile robotic (AMR) manufacturer. The company is was acquired earlier this year by Teradyne and now is a key part of the Teradyne automation product family. 

AutoGuide Mobile Robots handle large payloads such as:

• Full and empty pallets
• Car bodies
• Auto parts
• Manufactured components

AutoGuide has a complete line ...

This weekly podcast features interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Monarch Tractor co-founders Praveen Penmetsa (CEO), and Zachary Omohundro (CTO). Monarch Tractor just launched their n...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Geek+ Chief Operating Officer for the Americas, Mark Messina. Geek+ is an autonomous mobile robotic (AMR) manufacturer. They are one of the fastest growing AMR providers and they are currently expanding worldwide from their roots in China. Mark leads the growth in the Americas region from Chile to Alaska.

Geek+ provides one of the most expansive AMR product lines with solutions for:

• Materia...

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Interact Analysis Managing Director, Ash Sharma. Interact Analysis is one of the leading market research firms, covering the warehouse automation and mobile robot markets. Ash and Mike discuss trends in these markets and review some the conclusions from recent market research completed by Interact Analysis.

You can find Interact Analysis on the web at https://www.interactanalysis.com/

This weekly podcast will feature interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews inVia Robotics CEO Lior Elazary. Mike and Lior discuss how the success of inVia Robotics is tied directl...

This weekly podcast will feature interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Fox Robotics CEO Charles DuHadway. You'll learn about how the engineering team at Fox Robotics has ...

Welcome to our inaugural episode 1!

This weekly podcast will feature interviews with successful entrepreneurs, technology leaders and luminaries in the mobile robotics industry. If you love autonomous mobile robots as much as we do, then this is your weekly fix of inspiring stories about where this market is headed.

This week, host Mike Oitzman interviews Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) new CEO Soren Nielsen. You&...