“We could design the square footage, we can put fences up, we could customize the process paths around the robots. “Amazon has the advantage of putting things into 800,000-square-foot buildings,” says Porter. We think the Tesla bots are hard and a long ways off.”Īs companies have looked to eke out a competitive edge against the Amazon behemoth, microfulfillment - which places warehouses even closer to consumers for faster delivery - is becoming an increasingly important topic. “The way I tend to describe it is, if you’ve got Elon Musk’s Tesla bot on one end of the spectrum, and you’ve got these low-profile AMR (autonomous mobile robot) purpose-built robots that just move a pallet around on the other, we think there’s something much more pragmatic in the middle. “I’m intentionally not really wanting to talk more about the company than the specific robot,” says Porter. What it definitely won’t look like, however, is Tesla’s theoretically forthcoming Optimus robot. “So we’re starting a company to build that.”Īs it’s only 3 months old at the moment, Collaborative isn’t quite ready to discuss what such a piece of hardware might practically look like. “We don’t think that there is an equivalent capability to the six-degree-of-freedom robotic art that’s generally collaborative, works with humans and can meet a wide variety of use cases,” Porter said on a call with TechCrunch. Porter mentions the six-degrees-of-freedom robotic arm as being the closest industrial robotics have to a universal and versatile piece of hardware. Based in Santa Clara, California, the brand-new startup managed to snag the extremely simple name Collaborative Robotics and the accompanying URL, co.bot - a reference to the commonly used portmanteau abbreviation, cobot.īoth point to the HRI (human-robot interaction) at the center of the company’s mission. The project - which has, thus far, been listed as “More to Come” on his LinkedIn profile - comes out of stealth today, alongside a $10 million raise, led by Neo and featuring Khosla Ventures, Calibrate Ventures and 1984 Ventures. Porter spent just under 2 years as the CTO of Scale AI, before launching his own venture this March. In a discussion with TechCrunch, the executive cited his young family and wanting to be closer to his wife’s relatives in the Bay Area as factors.
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