In Episode 232 of The Robotic Report Podcast, Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO of Ghost Robotics, discusses the journey of his firm, from its inception to turning into a frontrunner in legged robotics.
Kevin Kenneally, CEO and cofounder, Ghost Robotics. | Credit score: Ghost Robotics
He highlights the distinctive challenges and benefits of legged robots in contrast with their wheeled counterparts, emphasizing their capability to navigate tough terrains.
In 2014, Kenneally and Avik De based Ghost Robotics after efficiently creating a number of direct-drive robots, like Minitaur. Gavin initially held the position of chief know-how officer when Jiren Parikh joined the corporate as CEO.
The firm launched the Imaginative and prescient 60 in 2020, whereas the crew grew to 10 workers. Ghost Robotics additionally deployed the primary base safety robotic at Tyndall AFB.
Prior to now 12 months, the corporate has grown to 60+ workers, delivered enhancements to the Imaginative and prescient 60 platform, together with new payload improvement and manipulator arm attachments. The firm has additionally began to market to the industrial sector.
Kenneally shall be talking on the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston in Could.
Present timeline
- 3:27 – Information of the week
- 23:54 – Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO, Ghost Robotics
Information of the week
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to deploy Agility’s Digit humanoids
Agility Robotics has signed an settlement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, or TMMC, to deploy its Digit robotic in its services after a profitable year-long pilot.
TMMC is Toyota Motor Corp.’s largest manufacturing operation exterior of Japan, with automobile meeting vegetation in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario. The unit has assembled autos since 1988, together with greater than 535,000 in 2025, and it employs over 8,500 individuals. The firm final month stated it might construct its Sixth-generation RAV4 at TMMC’s vegetation, investing $1.1 billion.
TMMC’s pilot concerned three Digits and included improvement, proof-of-technology, and onsite phases. The corporate stated it plans to now deploy seven humanoids to load and unload totes from an automatic tugger, with extra robots to return if they’re profitable.
Along with the work that Digit is already doing, Agility and TMMC will assess further use instances for robots and AI in help of workers in manufacturing, provide chain, and logistics operations.
Amazon’s Blue Jay sortation challenge fails to take flight
Amazon has reportedly pulled the plug on one in every of its latest warehouse robots, just a few months after unveiling it. Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system that the corporate launched in October for its same-day supply warehouses, quietly shut down in January, in line with individuals conversant in the matter.
Many workers who labored on the challenge had been reassigned to different robotics initiatives, the individuals added, whereas asking to not be recognized, discussing personal issues.
“A number of people at Amazon who’ve been terminated contacted me to inform me about Orbital, Amazon’s new robotic achievement platform,” wrote provide chain analyst Britain Ladd on LinkedIn. “Orbital is a alternative for the LVM or Native Merchandising Machine, which was Amazon’s model of a micro-fulfillment heart. LVM has been canceled. This hasn’t been beforehand reported.”
One well being system stops utilizing Moxi robotic
A month after Serve Robotics stated it deliberate to amass Diligent Robotics, the developer of the Moxi hospital supply robotic, The Information Tribune stated {that a} healthcare system had stopped utilizing the robotic.
“In Tacoma, a hospital system quietly ended its deployment of Moxi, a nursing-support robotic as soon as positioned as a technique to free clinicians from routine duties,” stated the newspaper. “In response to questions from The Information Tribune, MultiCare media consultant Scott Thompson stated through e-mail on Feb. 12, ‘We ended our contract with Moxi a couple of 12 months in the past.’”
“We discovered it wasn’t financially sustainable for us to maintain utilizing the robots,” wrote Thompson. “The price didn’t justify their stage of utilization.”
Buddy of the present Aaron Prather posted this on his LinkedIn feed:
