INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking on mundane, if
limited, processes to speed up work and free up humans to do other, more complex tasks
Now, a startup out of Poland that is widening the scope of what those robots can do is announcing funding, a sign not just of how robotic
technology has been evolving, but of the growing demand for more automation, specifically in the world of logistics and fulfilment.Nomagic,
which has developed way for a robotic arm to identify an item from an unordered selection, pick it up and then pack it into a box, is today
announcing that it has raised $8.6 million in funding, one of the largest-ever seed rounds for a Polish startup
previous backers of Nomagic.
There are a number of robotic arms on the market today that can be programmed to pick up and deposit items from
But we are only starting to see a new wave of companies focus on bringing these to fulfilment environments because of the limitations of
fulfilment of, for example, online orders is usually carried out by humans.Nomagic has incorporated a new degree of computer vision, machine
logistics and fulfilment more efficient.That is to say, there has been little in the way of bigger commercial roll outs of the technology,
DeepMind subsidiary, and decided he wanted to tackle a new problem for his next challenge.His interest underscores what has been something
of a fork in artificial intelligence in recent years
While some of the earliest implementations of the principles of AI were indeed on robots, these days a lot of robotic hardware seems clunky
out, DeepMind in particular has faced a lot of controversy over its own work in areas like healthcare)
environments caught my attention
Nowicki said he had a connection to the firm by way of his time in the Bay Area, where before Google, Vinod Khosla backed a startup of his
interested because of the a closer opportunity at home, where Nomagic is already working with third-party logistics and fulfilment
