Development

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, funding to early-stage robotics startups has dipped. High interest rates have slowed orders, and investors are wary of solutions in search of problems. However, the demand for automation is continuing to grow across industries, and capital is available to companies that can demonstrate value and a realistic timeline.

This panel will share tips from experienced investors and robotics companies on what they’re looking for. Learn how organizations can navigate the challenging path to commercialization.

MassRobotics is the world’s first and largest independent non-profit innovation hub focused on growing robotics technology companies, scaling solutions and championing robotics adoption. The MassRobotics Accelerator, Powered by Mass Tech Collaborative, empowers the next generation of robotics startups through non-dilutive funding, custom tailored curriculum, and personalized mentorship. In this session the first accelerator cohort, a diverse group of startup technologies from across the United States, will showcase their technologies and businesses. Investors are encouraged to attend.

Robotics companies have to contend with a flood of log data that robots generate. Even a small number of deployments can quickly produce thousands of log files that contain complex, multi-modal sensor data. When managed incorrectly, this data quickly becomes a burden and can hide issues affecting system reliability and safety. Many companies are unable to answer simple questions like: “have we seen this problem before?

In this talk, we’ll cover key lessons learned from productizing robots at Amazon, and show how you can leverage AI to search, transform and analyze robotics data at scale in the cloud. We’ll also highlight how getting this data under control can unlock the use of exciting new transformer models in robotics.