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The Man Behind Amazon’s Robot Army Wants Everyone to Have an AI-Powered Helper

Brad Porter helped Amazon deploy an army of warehouse robots. His new creation—Proxie—could help other companies embrace more automation.

Erez Agmoni, a general partner at Interwoven Ventures who was involved with bringing the Cobot pilot to Maersk, says it has been very promising and has the potential to be expanded. “The main reason is their ability to utilize collaborative robots to support the teams without huge modifications to the warehouse or current equipment,” he says. Rodney Brooks, a pioneering researcher and cofounder of iRobot, is now the chief technology officer of Robust.AI, a company that makes collaborative mobile robots capable of helping human pickers inside factories and warehouses.

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