The Zero100 Podcast Mind the Automation Gap: Building Toward a Human-Machine Future
Mar 24, 2025
28:03
Automating a desk-based process is one thing. Installing legions of robots on the frontline is another. This week, the Zero100 team unpacks the unique challenges and opportunities of automating factories and warehouses. Featuring: VP Research Strategy Steve Hochman, Principal Analyst Jenna Fink, and Chief Research Officer Kevin O'Marah.
- Fact vs fiction: the future of frontline automation (00:48)
- Unpacking the automation gap between laptop and physical work (4:31)
- Presenting automation to the C-suite: a new business case (8:24)
- Secrets to accelerating your automation journey (11:27)
- Are design constraints holding back innovation? Medtronic thinks so. (13:32)
- How Coca-Cola and Renault use simulation to change the cost equation (16:02)
- Humanoid robots: are they hype or truly useful? (19:03)
- Where humans fit into this more autonomous future (22:44)