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In the past, robotics companies turned to remote edge case handling either as a last step in the refinement of their product or not at all. Instead, they relied on customers to hire, train, and staff operators to be able to intervene when the robots fail. These groups typically do a small number of expensive pilot deployments with customers, with trained staff on-site to rescue the robots when they fail, and would spend years eliminating bugs before finally getting to 99.9999% reliability and being able to massively scale deployments.
But autonomous vehicles changed the way roboticists look at remote edge case handling – we now see remote interventions as a way to accelerate mass adoption of our robots by several years. Modern robotics companies today are starting with large-scale deployments immediately when the hardware exists, using remote interventions to enable reliability, and fixing bugs as they arise. These companies can make a profit off of a robot that works 95% of the time while they continue to develop autonomous systems towards 99.9999% reliability.
Adagy Robotics hopes to change this. Adagy Robotics provides remote interventions as a service to other robotics companies. With Adagy’s technology, companies can access the benefits of remote interventions without taking on the operational complexity of developing and staffing the systems themselves. This allows robotics companies to accelerate customer deployments and close more follow-on sales.
Rosalind Shinkle, co-founder and CEO of Adagy Robotics, will be giving more insights into what customers can gain from remote interventions during RoboBusiness. Produced by The Robot Report, RoboBusiness takes place Oct. 16-17 in Santa Clara, Calif., and is the leading event focused on developing commercial robots and robotics businesses. Her talk “Using Remote Interventions to Accelerate Deployments by Years,” will take place at 1:45 PM on October 16.
Before starting Adagy, Shinkle was a staff robotics engineer at Boston Dynamics, where she worked on the Spot manipulation team. At Boston Dynamics, she engineered the algorithms that tell Spot’s arm how to interact with the world, e.g. how to inspect manufacturing lines and place sensitive objects. Shinkle has a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and a Master’s in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hear from Adagy Robotics and more at RoboBusiness 2024
RoboBusiness will feature more than 60 speakers, over 100 exhibitors and demonstrations on the expo floor, 10+ hours of dedicated networking time, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competition, and more. Thousands of robotics experts from around the world will convene at the event.
In addition to enabling tech and robotics innovation, RoboBusiness 2024 focuses on investments and business topics related to running a robotics company. Keynote talks at the event include:
- Rodney Brooks, co-founder and chief technology officer at Robust AI
- Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence and an associate professor at UC Berkeley
- Claire Delaunay, the CTO at farm-ng
- Torrey Smith, the co-founder and CEO of Endiatx
The show will also include a keynote panel on “Driving the Future of Robotics Innovation,” featuring:
- Amit Goel, head of robotics at edge AI ecosystem at NVIDIA
- John Bubnikovich, president of ABB Robotics US
- Eric Truebenbach, managing director of Teradyne Robotics Ventures
- Joan-Wilhelm Schwarze, a senior global innovation manager at DHL
RoboBusiness is co-located with DeviceTalks West and is produced by WTWH Media, which also publishes The Robot Report, Automated Warehouse, and Collaborative Robotics Trends, as well as produces the Robotics Summit & Expo.
For information about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, download the prospectus. Questions regarding sponsorship opportunities should be directed to Colleen Sepich at csepich[AT]wtwhmedia.com.
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