Speaker 3
I sort of thought that the prior generation was a little bit diminutive, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's very cool. And you're hoping to go back to TechCrunch disrupt today. I think there's a few different robotics conversations that are happening. Is that
Speaker 2
right? That's right. So I'm going to hop in the car here when we get down recording this and scoot up the peninsula and spend a better part of the day at the robotics tech crunch disrupt. So put some miles on the car this week. That's awesome. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3
Well, it's, I'm sure you've had a lot of fun, but I'm a little jealous of you, of course, I'm from the Boston area. So a little bit on the other side of the country for me, but that sounds like a lot of fun. So we're going to be talking a lot about agricultural robotics today, obviously with Mike's attendance of the Fira event, which is the ag robotics is the main focus of that show. So we'll talk about some things that Mike took away from that show. We also have an interview later today with Brandon Contino. He's the co founder and CEO of four growers. They're a startup that's developing automated harvesting solutions for I think they're starting with tomatoes. I think they're next moving into cucumbers. They work indoors in greenhouses, which Brandon talks a lot about and why they're doing that and how it helps the development of each generation of their robotics system. So again, a big focus on ag robotics on today's episode. We'll recap the news as well. But before we do that, we do have to remind folks about our robo business show less than a month away, Mike, which is nuts. It takes place October 18th and 19th out in Santa Clara, California. We're going to have 60 plus speakers on stages. We're going to have 60 plus exhibitors on the show floor showcasing enabling technologies, products and services that can help you throughout your commercial robotics development journey. I know some of you have used this special discount code that we're sharing with only you, our loyal podcast listeners. But if you use the code robot report 25, you'll save 25% on your full conference passes. And that's good up till the time of the day of the show. So again, great lineup of keynote speakers, agility robotics, electronic sanctuary. We'll be doing a panel about the state of humanoid robotics. We'll have Sarah Schnickel. She's the director of emerging technologies at John Deere talking about the state of ag robotics development, a panel on generative AI, which we'll briefly talk about today as well. And then a couple of surgical robotics keynotes with intuitive surgical and Johnson and Johnson med tech. Again, a lot going on. You can learn all about robo business at robo business.com again, use the code robot report 25. You'll save 25% on your full conference passes. Any questions about the show, feel free to reach out to Mike or myself and we'll happily answer those questions for you. But onto the news this week, Mike, and we have you folks covered with our network of robotics websites. You can check us out at the robot report mobile robot guide robotics business review and collaborative robotics trends. We're going to start and stick with agility robotics, Mike, which earlier this week announced its manufacturing facility that they're going to pump out 10,000 humanoids per year. Yeah.
Speaker 2
It's pretty amazing that they're building a specific facility. I guess it's not not unexpected given what the business that they're in, but this is going to be their humanoid production facility up in Corvallis. And I had a chance to meet the new CEO, Andrea Campbell at the party on Monday. She seems to up for the task and super excited about this path forward. And it's funny. I talked to, I think Jonathan told me, Jonathan Hearst told me at the show at the event on Monday also that they had some folks who saw the pictures of the, some journalists who saw the pictures of the new facility and thought it was all CGI. And really, that question is this real? Is this a real building? You've really built this building and it's ready to occupy. And he's like, yeah, we've spent nine months, breaking ground building this, getting the whole thing put together because it's as real as anything else. Right. So that was an interesting comment. Yeah.
