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The Pitchfire Startup Competitors has been an opening-day spotlight for years at RoboBusiness, which runs Oct. 16-17 in Santa Clara, Calif. Pitchfire, which occurs on Oct. 16 from 4-4:45 PM on the Santa Clara Conference Heart, is a must-attend occasion for buyers, robotics entrepreneurs and innovation leaders alike.
Six robotics startups will compete this 12 months for a $5,000 first-place prize. Every startup will get 5 minutes to explain their firm’s resolution, enterprise mannequin, worth proposition and extra. After all of the contestants have pitched, Pitchfire judges will evaluate notes, attain a consensus, and announce a winner based mostly on who they consider to be greatest primed for industrial success.
Firms which have beforehand competed in Pitchfire embrace Glidance, Tatum Robotics, Southie Autonomy, Sadako Applied sciences, Autonomous Marine Techniques, inVia Robotics, Catalina Well being, Cubit, Rokid, RightHand Robotics, Tender Robotics and Knightscope. Final 12 months’s winner, Glidance, not too long ago raised a $1.5 million seed spherical.
New to this 12 months’s Pitchfire occasion, every of the startups can be exhibiting within the Startup Showcase on the RoboBusiness expo ground. Judges for the competitors are Lisa Chai, normal accomplice, Interwoven Ventures; Rugved Hattekar, senior lidar software program developer, Luminar; Ellen Chisa, accomplice, boldstart ventures; Eric Truebenbach, managing director, Teradyne Robotics Ventures; Ted Larson, CEO, OLogic.
RoboBusiness is the main occasion for the industrial robotics ecosystem. There can be 70-plus audio system, 70-plus exhibitors and demos on the expo ground, networking receptions and far more.
Here’s a have a look at this 12 months’s individuals:
Copper Robotics
Date Based: Could 1, 2024
Location: Austin, Texas
No. of staff: 2
Funding up to now: $0
Web site: https://www.copper-robotics.com/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 725
Copper Robotics is growing a robotics framework for creating quick and dependable robots. The corporate’s founder, Guillaume Binet, stated Copper provides a high-level configuration system and a Rust-first API. It makes use of Rust’s zero-cost abstractions and a data-oriented method to attain sub-microsecond latency on commodity {hardware}, avoiding heap allocation throughout execution. Guillaume stated Copper leverages Rust’s strengths, resembling reminiscence security, concurrency, and zero-cost abstractions, to construct an ecosystem round Rust and robotics.
Date Based: April 1, 2023
Location: Seattle
No. of staff: 2
Funding up to now: $0
Web site: https://www.dexman.ai/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 822
This startup is constructing DEX, an AI working system (OS) for robotic arms. Firm founder and CEO Mihai Jalobeanu stated the OS permits integrators (and even end-users) to quickly develop and deploy sturdy and dependable vision-based robotic options with out writing code. DEX permits workforce augmentation with cobots in unstructured environments, high-mix / low-volume manufacturing and plenty of different circumstances the place current strategies fail or could be cost-prohibitive.
In contrast to classical working methods, DEX doesn’t require a display screen, keyboard and mouse. Somewhat, customers work together with DEX in the identical manner they’d with an apprentice, explaining and exhibiting the steps and techniques to attain the duty, supervising the execution and offering corrections if wanted.
Isochronic AG
Date Based: Sept. 1, 2020
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
No. of staff: 15
Funding up to now: $3.5M
Web site: https://isochronic.com/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 727
Isochronic is growing new varieties of decide & place industrial robots, which allow simultaneous elements transport for the primary time. In June 2024, the corporate shipped and put in its first industrial pilot system. It’s now participating with further prospects throughout Europe & North America.
Paradigm Robotics
Date Based: Could 27, 2022
Location: Austin, Texas
No. of staff: 7
Funding up to now: $35,000
Web site: https://www.paradigmrobotics.tech/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 729
Paradigm Robotics’ flagship product, FireBot, is a high-temperature resistant unmanned floor car constructed to reinforce firefighting, public security, and emergency operations in construction fires, emergencies, disasters, incidents, and dangerous environments. FireBot is outfitted with a modular and superior suite of sensors that present life-saving, mission-critical situational consciousness in essentially the most hazardous circumstances.
FireBot could be deployed into structural fires or different instantly harmful to life or well being (IDLH) environments to assist major and secondary search operations, detect and determine hazards, reply to HazMat & RIC conditions, monitor hearth dynamics (find the seat of a fireplace, extension and many others), monitor air high quality & structural integrity, 3D map buildings, carry tools and payloads (as much as 300lbs), assist post-incident auditing, act as a TED gadget, and act as a assist gadget for hearth floor operations.
Robotics 88
Date Based: February 24, 2021
Location: Boston
No. of staff: 4
Funding up to now: $0
Web site: https://www.robotics88.com/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 824
Robotic 88’s autonomous unmanned plane system (UAS) empowers land managers to mitigate wildfire danger and enhance ecosystem well being by restoring the pure hearth regimes of our forest landscapes by way of the improved software of prescribed hearth. The core innovation of this UAS is its skill to fly at low altitudes beneath the tree cover to map important vegetation knowledge from the forest ground.
This UAS combines autonomous decision-making algorithms, mapping, impediment avoidance, and multi-UAS coordination to offer worth at each stage of the burn: Pre-burn maps inform excellent climate circumstances and useful resource necessities, and post-burn maps assist full mop-up (guaranteeing the hearth is out) and long-term forest monitoring. Aerial ignition and situational consciousness allow bigger and safer prescribed burns.
Summer season Robotics
Date Based: January 1, 2020
Location: Campbell, Calif.
No. of staff: 7
Funding up to now: $0
Web site: https://www.summerrobotics.ai/
RoboBusiness Sales space: 723
Summer season Robotics has developed a robotic visible intelligence system, which it stated offers robots 10x quicker response instances. The corporate licenses its software program to companions that construct imaginative and prescient {hardware}. This {hardware}, coupled with its software program, permits robots to carry out duties that till now have solely been capable of be carried out by people, e.g. fastening bolts on a shifting automotive line, with unpredictable motions.
Summer season Robotics stated it’s at present working with its first accomplice to carry a product to market in early 2025 within the automotive manufacturing trade.