Episode 203 of The Robotic Report Podcast options friends John Santagate from Infios, Elliot Helms from Novanta, and Aleksandr Malashchenko from Revimo.
The featured dialog is with John Santagate, senior vice chairman of world robotics at Infios. He discusses his journey within the provide chain robotics business, the firm‘s current rebranding from Korber Provide Chain Software program, and the affect of automation and AI on warehousing.
Santagate additionally shares insights from current commerce exhibits, the challenges posed by tariffs, and the potential for humanoid robots within the business. As well as, he discusses the evolution of know-how in provide chain administration and the significance of adapting to market modifications.
Relating to the usage of humanoids within the warehouse, infios’ Santagate stated he believes that “the market just isn’t prepared for humanoids but,” and that “humanoid robots have to discover a goal.”
The dialog with Elliot Helms and Aleksandr Malashchenko is from a reside interview from the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo present flooring with Steve Crowe and explores the partnership between Novanta and Revimo.
Present timeline
- 06:30 – Information of the week
- 16:27 – Interview with Elliot Helms from Novanta and Aleksandr Malashchenko from Revimo
- 42:44 – Interview with John Santagate, senior vice chairman of world robotics at Infios
Information of the week
Attabotics recordsdata for chapter as ASRS agency lays off employees
Attabotics Inc. final week reportedly laid off most of its roughly 200 staff and filed a discover of intention for chapter safety. The Calgary, Alberta-based firm had developed {hardware} and software program for automated storage and retrieval techniques (ASRS).
Based in 2016, the corporate had raised a complete of greater than $194 million (U.S.), in line with Crunchbase. Whereas Attabotics’ annual income was over $50 million final yr, it additionally had a web loss of almost $50 million CAD ($36 million U.S.) in 2024.
Work together Evaluation slashes cellular robotic outlook amid tariff uncertainty
Present business challenges and a variety of different contributory elements have brought on Work together Evaluation to downgrade its cellular robotic market forecast. | Supply: Work together Evaluation
Work together Evaluation has decreased its 2025 market forecast by one other $800 million, with decrease development predicted in every of the foremost areas, wrote Ash Sharma, chief industrial officer and vice chairman of analysis for robotics and warehouse automation at Work together Evaluation. This adjustment displays a broader reassessment of the business’s development trajectory, with the 2030 income projection now standing at $15.6 billion, down from earlier, extra optimistic estimates.
U.S. tariffs are a major contributor to Work together Evaluation’ forecast revision. It stated they’re including uncertainty round capital funding choices, inflicting delays in robotic orders.
Johns Hopkins teaches robotic to take away a gallbladder from a sensible affected person
Researchers at Johns Hopkins College have developed a robotic, Surgical Robotic Transformer-Hierarchy (SRT-H), that efficiently carried out a portion of a gallbladder from a sensible affected person mannequin with out human intervention. The group was led by medical roboticist Axel Krieger.
Constructed with the identical machine studying structure that powers ChatGPT, SRT-H is in a position to reply to spoken instructions similar to “seize the gallbladder head” and corrections like “transfer the left arm a bit to the left.” The robotic learns from this suggestions.
Final yr, Krieger’s group used the system to coach a robotic to carry out three foundational surgical duties: manipulating a needle, lifting physique tissue, and suturing. These duties took just some seconds every. Johns Hopkins received a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for the achievement.
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