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Welcome to Episode 99 of The Robotic Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Be part of us every week for discussions with main roboticists, modern robotics corporations and different key members of the robotics group.
This week, we speak to the founders of the Robotics Operations Group (ROG) concerning the development of the group and the planning and execution of the inaugural “RobOpsCon”, a convention devoted to finest practices for working autonomous robotics at scale.
Co-host Mike Oitzman attended the convention earlier this week in Santa Cruz, CA, and had the chance to take a seat down with ROG co-founders Florian Pestoni and Joe Wieciek to speak concerning the group, its mission and what it took to tug this stay, in-person convention collectively.

Attendees on the 2022 RobOps Convention in Santa Cruz, CA | Credit score: Florian Pestoni
The podcast additionally recaps a number of the week’s prime tales, together with a patent combat that’s brewing between Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics. Cruise is now in a position to run its robotaxis through the day, because it enters the following section of rollout in San Francisco. Lastly, we speak concerning the latest robotic piece choosing/sortation robotic being deployed at Amazon.
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