In Episode 230 of The Robotic Report Podcast, hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre recap the most important robotics information of the week and converse with two robotics consultants.
Mario Mauerer, world robotics enterprise supervisor at Maxon.
Our first visitor this week is Mario Mauerer. He studied electrical engineering at ETH Zürich, finishing a Ph.D. in energy electronics.
In 2018, Mauerer joined ANYbotics in 2018, the place he helped scale the corporate’s quadruped inspection robotic fleet, in addition to the enterprise itself from 20 to greater than 120 workers.
In 2024, Maurer left his function as chief know-how officer of {hardware} to affix maxon motor, the place he now works as world enterprise improvement supervisor for robotics with the goal of bringing superior drive methods to fashionable robotics purposes.
David Koelle, principal software program engineer and director of engineering, Charles River Analytics.
Our featured interview this week is with David Koelle. He’s director of engineering for the Human-Centered AI division and principal software program engineer at Charles River Analytics, the place he develops multi-robot collaborative autonomy methods for shoppers together with DARPA, NASA, and the U.S. Air Drive.
Koelle and his Charles River workforce are constructing autonomous platforms that allow robotic groups to work collectively to finish targets.
The objective is to develop clever swarm methods that may make choices on the sting in excessive environments similar to mines, outer house, or battlefields, the place they might be minimize off from conventional communications with operators.
Present timeline
- 8:12 – Information of the week
- 16:09 – Interview with maxon’s Mario Maurer
- 34:34 – Interview with Charles River Analytics’ David Koelle
Information of the week
Waymo is coming to Boston and Sacramento
Waymo, which this week raised $16 billion, bringing its whole valuation to $126 billion, additionally introduced plans to carry its robotaxis to 2 extra cities. The firm had beforehand mapped Boston with out specifying when it could provide service within the presently snowy Northeast.
Humanoid developer LimX closes $200M Collection B spherical
Humanoid robotics firms are persevering with to get capital to carry their methods to market. LimX Dynamics this week accomplished a $200 million financing spherical. The corporate mentioned it plans to make use of its newest funding to additional speed up analysis and improvement and market enlargement.
LimX is integrating high-level cognitive planning with whole-body movement management in limbed robots. The corporate claimed that its TRON 2 and LimX COSA methods have attracted consideration throughout the business in latest months.
The corporate can be bringing its humanoid to the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. Humanoids have been additionally a subject of latest proposed laws, in addition to The Robotic Report‘s “State of the Robotics Trade 2026” report.
