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From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap

John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot Report Podcast, where he highlighted the company's fleet of over 50,000 autonomous mobile robots that have logged more than 25 million hours of safe operation powered by BrainOS. The episode also covered news including XPeng Motors' humanoid robot unit Dogotix raising $900M, Generalist securing $200M in funding, NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubling inference performance, and Symbotic taking the No. 1 spot in warehouse automation.

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From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap
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In Episode 259 of The Robot Report Podcast, the topic is scaling robot fleets and building trust while operating in public spaces.

Our guest is John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp. He has commercialized a fleet of over 50,000 autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), which have logged more than 25 million hours of safe, real-world operation powered by BrainOS.

A Carnegie Mellon University graduate, Black is a TÜV Rheinland-certified functional safety engineer and serves as board chair for the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Corporate Affiliates Program.

Show timeline #

- 10:00 – News of the week
- 25:43 –
[John Black](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-b-22744b8/), CTO, Brain Corp

News of the week #

XPeng Motors humanoid robot unit Dogotix raises $900MGeneralistbrings in another $200M in fundingas it updates its modelJetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIASymbotic takes No. 1 in warehouse automation, according to Interact Analysis

Sponsors #

Thanks to our sponsors who make this content possible.

To learn how you can sponsor a future episode of The Robot Report Podcast, contact Jami Brownlee at [email protected]

Would you like to be a guest on a future episode? Contact Mike Oitzman at [email protected]

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