By Clara Vu, co-founder and VP Engineering, Veo Robotics
Whenever I try to describe the culture we are working to create at Veo, the word I keep coming back to is “respect.” We’re all grown-ups working together toward a common goal, and we should treat each other as such.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, and Scott Denenberg, co-founder and Chief Architect at Veo Robotics
In this new series of blog posts, we explore what human-robot collaboration really looks like, and how it could be improved within the constraints of the real world’s technology capabilities and manufacturing economics.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, and Clara Vu, co-founder and VP Engineering, Veo Robotics
On top of not being able to match our computing power, machines also fail spectacularly when compared to human perception and manipulation skills.
Read MoreBy Meena Vembusubramanian, Director of Product Management, Veo Robotics
To understand why manufacturing automation is at such an exciting point in time right now, it’s helpful to first consider the success of automation in material handling.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
In today’s post we discuss the dystopians, who sell the most books by featuring apocalyptic visions of AI taking over the world and consigning humanity to the scrap heap, or perhaps to permanent servitude or slavery.
Read MoreBy Mikell Taylor, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Customer Support, Veo Robotics
When we imagine our robotic future, we imagine all kinds of robots but seldom focus on why we would need them.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
Disruption to the 20th century pattern of manufacturing activity flowing across Asia and emerging markets elsewhere could cause a profound realignment on manufacturing capital flows and production profiles, and how countries get rich in the future.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
Rather than believing that AI and automation will expand the pie, traditionalists believe these technologies will only change the widths of the slices. And they are most concerned with quantifying those changes and preparing policy responses.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
The premier proponent of the techno-pessimists, who predict that AI is over-hyped and that we're only going to see "more of the same," is Northwestern University professor Robert Gordon.
Read MoreBy Mikell Taylor, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Customer Support, Veo Robotics
If you’re interested in robots but you’re stuck on the question “How do I get into robotics in the first place?” here are some thoughts from someone who’s been there and is now on the other side of the interview table.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
Many techno-optimists point to historical evidence that technological disruption in the past has overall been beneficial to both productivity growth and employment.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
Will robots take our jobs? Will robots give us jobs? Will they play give-and-take with our jobs, like a cat playing with a mouse before it does what cats do with mice?
Read MoreBy Scott Denenberg, co-founder and Chief Architect at Veo Robotics
Robots and machines, in their straight-out-of-the-box state, are dumb. Humans, on the other hand, have evolved five finely-honed senses and brains that process stimuli from those senses, which allow us to fluidly interact and communicate with our surroundings.
Read MoreBy Alberto Moel, Vice President Strategy and Partnerships, Veo Robotics
For a wide range of production volumes, human-machine collaboration leads to the lowest costs in a manufacturing process relative to either all-human or fully-automated assembly.
Read MoreBy Mikell Taylor, Senior Director of Program Management, Veo Robotics
When pop culture clashes with the way technologists understand and define things, we end up with a surprisingly complicated question: What is a robot?
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