The Robot Industry Podcast

Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #163. At Pickle Robot they are applying Physical AI to truck unloading and developing generalized autonomy that will unlock robot orchestration across entire logistics processes. Welcome back to the show AJ. Can you remind me how you got into this industry? Tell me a bit about the journey and what's happening now at Pickle Robot. Let’s go over t...

Hello Everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, #Automate2026 edition. My friend Chris Round and new friend Kojo are joining me for podcast #162. We are talking about sensors and Leuze is one of the premier safety sensor manufacturers in Europe. Who is Leuze, what do you make? What is a sensor? If I open one up what will I see? What are people interested in sensing? Is there a trend? How...

Hello everyone and welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #161. I welcome Hugo Lessnick from Averna in Montreal to the podcast. Hugo is the Engineering Manager at Averna, we are going to talk about test, automation, test software and well, all things test. Hi Hugo, welcome to the podcast. Can you tell me about Averna, the company? What kind of systems do you build: integrated, standalone?...

For this session (#160) of The Robot Industry Podcast I welcome KW's own Greta Cutulenco from Acerta Analytics (aka Acerta). According to Acerta's website: Manufacturing generates terabytes of data every day—yet most of it goes unused. The real opportunity isn’t more technology, but building a data-driven culture on the shop floor, where insights guide decisions in real time. She co-founded Acerta...

Bryan Madden is the Farms Director at Champ's Fresh Farms Inc. in Langley BC Welcome to podcast # 159. I caught up with Bryan, who is a customer of Mycionics, my client. I spent the last few days at #Mushroomdays or #Mushroom Days in the Netherlands. Here are some of my questions: How did you get into mushroom farming? Can you tell me about Apex / South Mill Champs? What is the output of the farm?...

Welcome to podcast # 158. Chuck Baresich is the Founder and President of Haggerty Creek farming operation. He is a farmer and an expert in AgRobotics. The farming operation is part of   Haggerty Creek Ltd. owned & operated by Chuck & Justin Baresich and AGRIS Cooperative since 2001  www.haggertycreek.com . He has been researching and testing various automated technologies. Haggerty AgRobot...

Welcome to #157 of TRIP, The Robot Industry Podcast. I met up with Matt in Windsor during the Windsor-Essex' Emerging Technologies in Automation & Mobility Transformation Conference & Trade Show . Matthew Hortop , P.E. is a Technical Specialist for all Things Electrification. AVL is his employer and they are a 12,000-person company focused on powertrains. They don't make engines or inverte...

Welcome to #156 of TRIP, The Robot Industry Podcast. Matt Khoshdarregi is the CEO of TetraGen Robotics. He holds a P.Eng. and Ph. D. They, TetraGen, are a Manitoba-based developer of adaptive robotic manufacturing systems for high-mix, high-variability applications. Their current focus is on welding and trimming processes. Enjoy the podcast! Some of my questions to him: Matt, How did you get into...

Welcome to #158, I have known Stephen Slothuber for a long time; in fact, I worked with him and his father at ATS Automation. The Slothubers were an institution at ATS for accuracy, dependability and getting things done. I was happy to have Steve on the podcast to talk about CRM for automation integrators and machine builders. Enjoy the podcast and if you are thinking about a CRM for your machine...

Chris Latour and I have known each other for many years, from our days at ATS Automation, and it was my pleasure to reach out to him to arrange a tour of Element5 in St. Thomas, Ontario. So if you have never heard of Mass Timber, it is structurally efficient wood that is bonded together and used to form small and large buildings: walls, ceilings, floors and is engineered to be easy to use, to look...