The 2024 RBR50 Innovation Awards

This week, the honorees for the 2024 RBR50 Innovation Awards have been introduced. On the podcast episode this week, your complete The Robotic Report editorial workers brings their opinions, observations, and highlights of the 2024 RBR50 Innovation Awards program. Host Steve Crowe discusses the awards with editors Mike Oitzman, Eugene Demaitre, and Brianna Wessling.

Pay attention as every of the editors discusses a few of their favourite robotics corporations and merchandise from this cohort of honorees. You’ll study what impressed the editors about a number of of the winners, and what’s notable on this yr’s program.

Come have fun on the Gala

We launched three new classes in 2024 – Robotic of the Yr, Software of the Yr, and Startup of the Yr – and can be holding the inaugural RBR50 Gala on Might 1 from 6-8 PM on the finish of Day 1 of the Robotics Summit & Expo. The gala affords an opportunity to attach with the world’s main robotics innovators. It’s additionally a night of celebration to honor main roboticists and their spectacular achievements.

Digit is Robotic of the Yr

2023 was the yr of humanoids, and Agility Robotics has taken an early lead with industrial trials. The corporate’s Digit humanoid stole the present at ProMAT, the place it demonstrated its capacity to select up totes from a shelf, stroll over to a conveyor, and place the totes onto the conveyor.

Autopicker wins Software of the Yr

Cincinnati-based Brightpick, which spun out of Photoneo, was named the inaugural Software of the Yr winner. In 2023, Brightpick unveiled Autopicker, which it stated is the primary commercially out there AMR that may choose and consolidate orders straight in warehouse aisles.

Electrical Sheep named Startup of the Yr

San Francisco-based Electrical Sheep’s distinctive enterprise mannequin permits it to usher in income because it takes its time deploying its expertise. This enterprise mannequin led to it being named Startup of the Yr.

Notice that the foundations for the RBR50 state that improvements must be introduced throughout the calendar yr. Hold that in thoughts as your group plans it’s product roadmap, and you’ll want to submit your robotic resolution for inclusion within the subsequent iteration of the RBR50 later this yr.

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