In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Rishabh Agarwal, who is the CEO and Co-founder of Peer Robotics. Having grown up as part of a manufacturing family, Rishabh left a career at Siemens and dropped out of his PhD to start his company and establish it as a trailblazer in mobile collaborative robotics. Peer Robotics is reshaping industries by offering smart, affordable robots designed to work alongside humans, leveraging no-code deployment and real-time learning capabilities to enhance operational efficiencies. Their innovation around haptics and ..read more

In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Robert Wesley, who is a Supplier Program Manager for Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Robert not only dedicates his time to Boeing, but also is passionate about the progression of minorities within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields. Within Boeing, their Autonomous Systems division focuses on developing unmanned vehicles that operate in the sea, across the ground, in the air and beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Robert takes us on a journey through some of the programs he was part of, includin ..read more

In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Ben Williams, the Chief Operating Officer of Exyn Technologies. Besides acting as COO for Exyn, Ben is an active mentor for early-stage startups and entrepreneurs, he consults and speaks throughout the New York and Philadelphia startup scenes. Exyn Technologies is an autonomous robotics company pioneering GPS-denied and infrastructureless  autonomy for robots performing a variety of tasks. In this conversation, Ben walks us through why this is such a big deal for the some of the more hazardous industries ..read more

In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon, host of our show, speaks with Frank Naccarato, the founder and president of Quantum Robotic Systems. A Toronto based robotics start-up specializing in stair-climbing devices that allow people to carry heavy items up and down stairs in an easier, faster, and safer way. In this conversation, they talk about the latest news coming out of Toronto with the status of their ban on sidewalk robots, Frank’s approach to climbing stairs, and how he hopes this helps people overcome the barriers and hazards posed by stairs in the ..read more

In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Dr. Thuc Vu, CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs, which is a Silicon Valley-based robotics company focused on providing demand-driven robotics solutions for businesses. Michael, alongside Thuc, remotely drives one of their telepresence robots on tour of their state-of-the-art manufacturing facility where they boast their own 3D printers spawning robots daily.  We talk about some of the latest solutions coming from OhmniLabs as well as current events and trends driving the industry forwa ..read more

In the 3rd episode of this new season of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Carl Doeksen, the Global Robotics & Automation Director at 3M. In this conversation, we have an opportunity to hear from Carl some fresh data and insights surrounding the robotics market coming out of the 2022 A3 Business Forum.  This forum is a world-leading annual networking event bringing together robotics, vision & imaging, motion control and AI professionals. For Robotics in North America, this is the place to get the best insights of the latest trends ..read more

In the 2nd episode of this new season of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Yehuda Elmaliah, Cogniteam’s Co-founder and CEO and Ari Yakir, VP of R&D, as they jump into Cogniteam’s pursuit to make it easy for robotic product builders to focus on their IP and avoid to reinventing the robotic wheel. In this conversation, we learn more about Yehuda’s and Ari’s approach to democratizing robotics through their cloud platform Nimbus. They see such a wide variety of robotics and applications, it is fascinating to hear their opinion on some of the mo ..read more

In the 1st episode of this new season of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Bern Grush, Executive Director of the Urban Robotics Foundation and Chief Innovation Officer at Harmonize Mobility, unpack Toronto City Council December 17th decision to ban robots on their streets and sidewalks.  In this conversation, we learn how Bern’s current work is critical to move this industry forward, as he has been drafting a technical standard, for ground-based automated mobility, specifically looking at Loading and Unloading at the curbside and on sidewalks. It ..read more

In this 3rd episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Lentin Joseph, Author, Roboticist and Robotics Entrepreneur from India, take a dive into Open Source Robotics, Social Robots and much more.  The Robotics field is hot right now. There is an explosion in startups raising capital not only in traditional areas such as manufacturing, but also in areas traditionally not thought possible like agriculture and transportation.  In this conversation Lentin unpacks some of the topics and trends that helped to ignite this growth and we gain some f ..read more

In this 8th episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, talks with Audrey Boucher-Genesse, Coordonnatrice académique du baccalauréat en génie robotique at the Université de Sherbrooke. They take a dive into the Université de Sherbrooke's innovative Robotics Engineering bachelor’s program which focuses on project-based learning. In this conversation, we are joined by David Mailhot, our Director Robotic Finishing Development and together with Audrey we have the behind the scenes look into their unique approach to teaching robotics and raising the next gener ..read more