Welcome to Episode 97 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. This week, cohosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the news this week about the shutdown of autonomous driving technology company Argo AI. The company is being dissolved and the technology and team members are going to be distributed to leading funders FORD and VW. Finally this week, Mike speaks with Peter Chen, CEO of Covariant.AI, about the company's new RaaS solution, CovariantOne, which is built on service level agreements (SLAs) for the performance of the Covariant warehousing solution. If you would like to be a guest on an upcoming episode of the podcast, or if you have recommendations for future guests or segment ideas, contact Steve Crowe or Mike Oitzman.

Welcome to Episode 95 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. This week, cohosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the recent unveiling of the Tesla Optimus bipedal robot at the Tesla AI Days 2022 event. We also learn about the latest in warehouse and logistics automation in an interview with Swisslog USA President, Markus Schmidt. If you would like to be a guest on an upcoming episode of the podcast, or if you have recommendations for future guests or segment ideas, contact Steve Crowe or Mike Oitzman.

This episode of The Robot Report Podcast is brought to you by Weintek USA. Let Weintek USA help solve your HMI supply headaches! With advanced features, communication drivers for all common PLCs and free software, transitioning to Weintek USA solutions is simple. Welcome to Episode 88 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Our guest this week is Peter Finn, managing director of Cowen's Industrials investment banking group.

This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Weintek USA. Let Weintek USA help solve your HMI supply headaches! With advanced features, communication drivers for all common PLCs and free software, transitioning to Weintek USA solutions is simple. Welcome to Episode 87 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Our guest this week is Sally Miller, Chief Information Officer of North America Supply Chain at DHL. Steven and Mike talk to Sally about the state of robotics deployed at DHL North America. It's an insightful conversation about the types of robots in use at DHL, the types of workflow that DHL wants to automate and how DHL engages with partners to test innovative, new solutions.

Welcome to Episode 67 of The Robot Report Podcast, where each week Robot Report editor Steve Crowe and Mobile Robot Guide editor Mike Oitzman review the latest robotics, automation and intelligent systems news and announcements, and interview leading roboticists, leaders of innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community. You can subscribe to The Robot Report Podcast on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, SoundCloud and more. Please subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review! In Episode 67 of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the recent series large investments into robotics companies, totaling nearly US $1B. If this trend continues, 2022 may be a record year for investments into robotics-related organizations.