John Black, CTO, Brain Corp.
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, CTO, Brain Corp
News of the week
- XPeng Motors humanoid robot unit Dogotix raises $900M
- Generalist brings in another $200M in funding as it updates its model
- Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIA
- Symbotic takes No. 1 in warehouse automation, according to Interact Analysis
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