Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Ghassan Elefrangy, the founder and CEO of Aerospace & Industrial Automation. Ghassan has a background in civil engineering, a passion for problem-solving, and quickly found his calling in industrial robotics. At AIA, he helps manufacturers and aerospace companies boost productivity through automation solutions. Ghassan started his company, in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) because of t...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Max Falcone, Vice-President of Sales Engineering and Shane Rose, Marketing and Business Development Manager both from PushCorp. Max has more than 20 years of automation experience having spent 10 years with a large automotive system integration, over five years with a robot OEM and now over five years with PushCorp. Shane has had a career rooted in the industrial sector since 2018 and a focus ...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Rishabh Agarwal, who is the CEO and Co-founder of Peer Robotics. Having grown up as part of a manufacturing family, Rishabh left a career at Siemens and dropped out of his PhD to start his company and establish it as a trailblazer in mobile collaborative robotics. Peer Robotics is reshaping industries by offering smart, affordable robots designed to work alongside humans, leveraging no-code de...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Robert Wesley, who is a Supplier Program Manager for Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Robert not only dedicates his time to Boeing, but also is passionate about the progression of minorities within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields. Within Boeing, their Autonomous Systems division focuses on developing unmanned vehicles that operate in the sea, across the ground, in the...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Ben Williams, the Chief Operating Officer of Exyn Technologies. Besides acting as COO for Exyn, Ben is an active mentor for early-stage startups and entrepreneurs, he consults and speaks throughout the New York and Philadelphia startup scenes. Exyn Technologies is at the forefront of autonomous robotics, spearheading innovations in GPS-denied and infrastructureless autonomy for robots tasked w...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, we're excited to welcome Tim Kubista, the leader of the sales and marketing teams at RC Mowers. Tim brings over 30 years of experience in leadership, strategy, and market expansion, and is laser-focused on the customer experience and the commercial mowing industry. In this conversation, we dive into the topic of their newly launched autonomous mowing robot and its impact on commercial landscaping. Tim shares insights ...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon, host of our show, speaks with Frank Naccarato, the founder and President of Quantum Robotic Systems Inc., a Toronto based robotics start-up specializing in stair-climbing devices that allow people to carry heavy items up and down stairs in an easier, faster, and safer way. In this conversation, they talk about the latest news coming out of Toronto with the status of their ban on sidewalk robots, Frank...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Jad Tawil, CTO, and co-founder of Nexus Robotics, which is a Quebec-based robotics company focused on the agriculture sector developing autonomous robotic solutions. They created Nexus to address three major problems: labour, chemicals, and climate change. As their beachhead solution, Jad and his team use machine learning to tackle the jobs no one wants to do anymore...

Send us a text In this new episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Dr. Thuc Vu, CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs, which is a Silicon Valley-based robotics company focused on providing demand-driven robotics solutions for businesses. Michael, alongside Thuc, remotely drives one of their telepresence robots on tour of their state-of-the-art manufacturing facility where they boast their own 3D printers spawning robots daily. We talk a...

Send us a text In the 3rd episode of this new season of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Carl Doeksen, the Global Robotics & Automation Director at 3M. In this conversation, we have an opportunity to hear from Carl some fresh data and insights surrounding the robotics market coming out of the 2022 A3 Business Forum. This forum is a world-leading annual networking event bringing together robotics, vision & imaging, motion control...

Send us a text In the 2nd episode of this new season of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, speaks with Yehuda Elmaliah, Cogniteam’s Co-founder and CEO and Ari Yakir, VP of R&D, as they jump into Cogniteam’s pursuit to make it easy for robotic product builders to focus on their IP and avoid to reinventing the robotic wheel. In this conversation, we learn more about Yehuda’s and Ari’s approach to democratizing robotics through their cloud platform Nimbus...

Send us a text In the 1st episode of this new season of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Bern Grush, Executive Director of the Urban Robotics Foundation and Chief Innovation Officer at Harmonize Mobility, unpack Toronto City Council December 17th decision to ban robots on their streets and sidewalks. In this conversation, we learn how Bern’s current work is critical to move this industry forward, as he has been drafting a technical standard, f...

Send us a text In this 8th episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, talks with Audrey Boucher-Genesse, Coordonnatrice académique du baccalauréat en génie robotique at the Université de Sherbrooke. They take a dive into the Université de Sherbrooke's innovative Robotics Engineering bachelor’s program which focuses on project-based learning. In this conversation, we are joined by David Mailhot, our Director Robotic Finishing Development and together wit...

Send us a text In this 7th episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Lee Glazier, Head of Service Integrity at Rolls-Royce, take a dive into how they are using Artificial Intelligence while applying their Aletheia Framework to answer the vital question: is the AI is in fact safe, ethical and trustworthy. In this episode Lee paints an excellent picture of the potential impact of not understanding and examining AI as it is scaled into their business...

Send us a text In this 6th episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Pedro Gregorio, Specialist Engineer at MDA, take a dive into what is next for the rapidly growing satellite market and Pedro's unceasing innovation in robotics! In this episode we learn how the landscape of this market is rapidly changing with the acceleration of low orbit satellites and the increased space exploration. We also hear how MDA has embraced the opportunity and ...

Send us a text In this 5th episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, is joined by two great #3mers, Nathan Herbst and Scott Barnett. 3M has taken a lead role in promoting the advancement of Robotic Finishing by building several labs around the world to test all types of finishing applications. In this episode we compare notes on the best ways to solve finishing problems, the wide variety of language that is used to describe these processes and the dete...

Send us a text In this 4th episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Product Outsourcing and Orthopedic Design & Technology magazines, take a dive into on how the Medical Device industry is doing through the pandemic and then jump into the fascinating world of surgical robots. It is amazing how technology landscape has grown and how robotics has become an essential part of todays medical procedures...

Send us a text In this 3rd episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Lentin Joseph, Author, Roboticist and Robotics Entrepreneur from India, take a dive into Open Source Robotics, Social Robots and much more. The Robotics field is hot right now. There is an explosion in startups raising capital not only in traditional areas such as manufacturing, but also in areas traditionally not thought possible like agriculture and transportation. ...

Send us a text In this 2nd episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Bryan Germann from Optomec, take a dive into 3D printing and robotics as they explore together a couple European Commission reports and the predictions and obstacles inside of them. It is interesting to have the perspective of an industry insider like Bryan who has brought forth several innovations in 3D printing and robotics. For more information about the two repor...

Send us a text In this first episode of Robotics for All Podcast by AV&R, Michael Muldoon host of our show, with Yves Proteau from APN Global, take a dive into what the Roadmap for US Robotics report outlines as the major challenges manufacturing companies face implementing automation. It is interesting to hear what Yves classifies as challenges versus what he says calls excuses. Yves outlines his journey buying his first cobot, to bringing his company, APN Global, to be recognized...