Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.71
…clusters are on a united front. During last year's Cascadia Connect event, there was an announcement of a new U.S. Alliance of Robotics Clusters. I was wondering if you could share more details about how that effort is going. Right now, it's Boston, Silicon Valley, and Pittsburgh. We are the more mature, more developed, and definitely are the critical-mass clusters of the regions. There are also international ones that we talk to. But from a USARC perspective, we're just trying to figure out are there more emerging clusters. How do we integrate them into USARC. And what is our annual…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 38.41
…all warehouses have no automation. Last week during the Cascadia Connect event in Pittsburgh, a group of robotics executives, investors, and systems integrators tackled that problem during the panel on “Bridging the Last Mile: How Do We Deploy Robots More Quickly and Efficiently?” The panel was moderated by Jason Lippenberger, senior vice president at Cascadia Capital, and it included: Bryan Bird, regional president for the U.S. and Canada at Universal Robots Misa Ilkheci, co-founder and vice president of products and partnerships at Formic Jordan Kretchmer, co-founder and CEO of Rapid Robotics Jim Rock, operating partner at Arsenal Capital Partners James…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.86
…was laying off 20% of its staff. At the Cascadia Connect, Robotics, Automation, and AI event this week, a group of investors in the robotics industry discussed the economy and their considerations as part of the “ROI in RAAI: Investor Perspectives” panel. The discussion was moderated by Firdaus Pohowalla, a managing director at Cascadia Capital who helps leads the Seattle-based bank's robotics, automation, and AI division. The panel included investors who provide capital at various stages of the fundraising process: Jeremie Capron, partner and director of research at ROBO Global Dennis Dunegan, managing principal of Graham Partners Adam Kelson, partner…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.45
…tackled during “The Supply Chain Revolution” panel at the Cascadia Connect Robotics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) conference here this week. Composed of executives and founders from some well-known U.S. robotics companies, panelists included Bernard Casse, founder and CEO of RIOS Intelligent Machines; Thomas Evans, robotics chief technology officer at Honeywell; Erik Nieves, co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics Inc.; Damion Shelton, co-founder and CEO of Agility Robotics; and Lance VandenBrook, CEO of IAM Robotics. “We thought there were a lot of lessons that could be extracted from the experiences of the founders here, said moderator Firdaus Pohowalla, Cascadia…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 44.85
PITTSBURGH—At the Cascadia Connect robotics and automation conference yesterday, three of the top robotics cluster organizations in the U.S. announced that they are forming an alliance. MassRobotics, the Pittsburgh Robotics Network (PRN), and Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) are forming the United States Alliance of Robotics Clusters (USARC). With the increased collaboration, the organizations said they will use one another's resources to work with government and industry leaders to promote and support innovation in the automation space. “We want to advocate on behalf of the robotics industry,” said Andra Keay, managing director of SVR, in a panel discussion with Fady Saad,…