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Everybody from startups to company clients can find out about funding tendencies at RoboBusiness. Credit score: Summer time Robotics
After commerce conflicts, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a hunch within the robotics market, what ought to entrepreneurs, traders, and clients be in search of? An knowledgeable panel will analyze the most recent robotics funding tendencies at RoboBusiness 2024, which can be on Oct. 16 and 17 in Santa Clara, Calif.
This session, which brings collectively traders and roboticists, will talk about the challenges and alternatives of fundraising, from early stage capital by way of commercialization. The panelists will talk about the present state of robotics investments, which applied sciences and purposes are discovering demand, and associated applied sciences reminiscent of synthetic intelligence.
They may also make clear the variations between strategic and institutional traders, the function of geography, and the place the business is headed.
This panel, a part of the Driving Enterprise observe, can be at 1:30 p.m. PT on Day 2 of the occasion, in Room 212 of the Santa Clara Conference Middle.
Startup, traders to share insights into robotics funding tendencies
Schuyler Cullen is co-founder and CEO of Summer time Robotics Inc., which has developed a elementary new strategy to robotic visible intelligence. The Campbell, Calif.-based firm mentioned its software program is powering extra competent robots on the manufacturing line and in future contexts the place robots must deal with unsure and sophisticated situations.
Cullen has contributed to the fields of robotics, visible intelligence, and autonomous autos. Most lately, he was vice chairman of AI and robotics at Samsung, the place he led researchers and engineers constructing Samsung’s autonomous mobility stack for robots and automobiles. Whereas at Samsung, Cullen additionally engaged with educational teams, having helped carry business alliances reminiscent of Berkeley BDD and BAIR to life.
Cullen holds levels in arithmetic and physics from Caltech and earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford. His educational profession consists of achievements reminiscent of working with Nobel Prize-winning professors and contributing to analysis in particle physics and string idea.
Ivy Nguyen is principal at Autotech Ventures. She has labored with groups using a broad vary of enterprise fashions constructed round AI, machine studying, and automation, from conventional enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) to full-stack, tech-enabled producers, building companies, and healthcare suppliers.
Beforehand, Nguyen labored at Blackhorn Ventures, the place she invested in startups driving decarbonization in building, manufacturing, and provide chain actions. Nguyen additionally led early-stage investments in AI startups at Point72 Ventures and Zetta Enterprise Companions.
She is a thought chief on AI investing and entrepreneurship who has revealed in TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Nguyen was named amongst Forbes’ “30 underneath 30 in Enterprise Capital” in 2018 for her work in AI. She earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford College.
Eric Truebenbach is managing director of Teradyne Robotics Ventures. He’s a longtime participant in robotics and automation, as an inventor, a pacesetter of two inner startups, an acquirer, and an investor.
In Teradyne Company Growth, he performed a key function within the acquisitions of collaborative robotic chief Common Robots, cell robotic supplier Cell Industrial Robots, and others. Truebenbach presently manages the firm’s company enterprise fund devoted to investing in automation and AI to make folks safer, extra productive, and extra engaged.
A holder of dozens of patents, Truebenbach can be licensed to observe earlier than the U.S. Patent Workplace, and he’s a Teradyne Engineering Fellow.
Moderator Eugene Demaitre is editorial director for robotics at WTWH Media, which additionally produces The Robotic Report, Automated Warehouse, and the Robotics Summit & Expo along with RoboBusiness. Previous to working for WTWH Media, he was an editor at BNA (now a part of Bloomberg), Computerworld, TechTarget, and Robotics Enterprise Evaluation.
For practically a decade, Demaitre has participated in robotics conferences worldwide, in addition to spoken on quite a few webcasts and podcasts. He’s all the time keen on studying and sharing extra in regards to the newest expertise and business developments.
Demaitre has a grasp’s from the George Washington College and lives within the Boston space.
Register at the moment for RoboBusiness 2024
Along with funding tendencies and enterprise matters associated to working a robotics firm, RoboBusiness will give attention to robotics innovation and enabling applied sciences. Keynotes on the occasion will characteristic:
- Rodney Brooks, co-founder and chief expertise officer at Strong AI, in addition to co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics
- Sergey Levine, co-founder of Bodily Intelligence and an affiliate professor at UC Berkeley
- Claire Delaunay, chief expertise officer at farm-ng
- Torrey Smith, co-founder and CEO of Endiatx
RoboBusiness may also embody greater than 60 audio system, over 100 exhibitors and demos on the expo ground, 10+ hours of devoted networking time, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors, a Girls in Robotics Luncheon, and extra.
RoboBusiness can be co-located with DeviceTalks West, which focuses on the design and improvement of medical units. 1000’s of robotics practitioners from around the globe will convene in Silicon Valley, so register now to make sure your spot!
For details about sponsorship and exhibition alternatives, obtain the prospectus. Questions concerning sponsorship alternatives ought to be directed to Colleen Sepich at csepich[AT]wtwhmedia.com.
