Episode 203 of The Robotic Report Podcast options visitors John Santagate from Infios, Elliot Helms from Novanta, and Aleksandr Malashchenko from Revimo.
The featured dialog is with John Santagate, senior vice chairman of worldwide robotics at Infios. He discusses his journey within the provide chain robotics trade, the firm‘s current rebranding from Korber Provide Chain Software program, and the influence of automation and AI on warehousing.
Santagate additionally shares insights from current commerce exhibits, the challenges posed by tariffs, and the potential for humanoid robots within the trade. As well as, he discusses the evolution of expertise in provide chain administration and the significance of adapting to market adjustments.
Relating to the usage of humanoids within the warehouse, infios’ Santagate stated he believes that “the market will not be prepared for humanoids but,” and that “humanoid robots have to discover a goal.”
The dialog with Elliot Helms and Aleksandr Malashchenko is from a dwell interview from the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo present ground with Steve Crowe and explores the partnership between Novanta and Revimo.
Present timeline
06:30 – Information of the week
16:27 – Interview with Elliot Helms from Novanta and Aleksandr Malashchenko from Revimo
42:44 – Interview with John Santagate, senior vice chairman of worldwide robotics at Infios
Information of the week
Attabotics information for chapter as ASRS agency lays off workers
Attabotics Inc. final week reportedly laid off most of its roughly 200 workers and filed a discover of intention for chapter safety. The Calgary, Alberta-based firm had developed {hardware} and software program for automated storage and retrieval techniques (ASRS).
Based in 2016, the corporate had raised a complete of greater than $194 million (U.S.), based on Crunchbase. Whereas Attabotics’ annual income was over $50 million final yr, it additionally had a web loss of almost $50 million CAD ($36 million U.S.) in 2024.
Work together Evaluation slashes cellular robotic outlook amid tariff uncertainty
Present trade challenges and a variety of different contributory components have prompted Work together Evaluation to downgrade its cellular robotic market forecast. | Supply: Work together Evaluation
Work together Evaluation has decreased its 2025 market forecast by one other $800 million, with decrease development predicted in every of the main areas, wrote Ash Sharma, chief business officer and vice chairman of analysis for robotics and warehouse automation at Work together Evaluation. This adjustment displays a broader reassessment of the trade’s development trajectory, with the 2030 income projection now standing at $15.6 billion, down from earlier, extra optimistic estimates.
U.S. tariffs are a big contributor to Work together Evaluation’ forecast revision. It stated they’re including uncertainty round capital funding choices, inflicting delays in robotic orders.
Johns Hopkins teaches robotic to take away a gallbladder from a practical affected person
Researchers at Johns Hopkins College have developed a robotic, Surgical Robotic Transformer-Hierarchy (SRT-H), that efficiently carried out a portion of a gallbladder from a practical affected person mannequin with out human intervention. The group was led by medical roboticist Axel Krieger.
Constructed with the identical machine studying structure that powers ChatGPT, SRT-H is ready to reply to spoken instructions comparable to “seize the gallbladder head” and corrections like “transfer the left arm a bit to the left.” The robotic learns from this suggestions.
Final yr, Krieger’s group used the system to coach a robotic to carry out three foundational surgical duties: manipulating a needle, lifting physique tissue, and suturing. These duties took just some seconds every. Johns Hopkins received a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for the achievement.
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