Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.45
June 14, 2023
…co-founder of iRobot and CEO of weeding robot maker Tertill, which just merged with Harvest Automation. She related the anecdote of a Pepsi commercial with a non-iRobot vacuum that acclimated consumers to the possibility of home cleaning robots. “What can we do now with the technology?” she asked. “If you can’t get a product-market fit at a reasonable price, don’t bother.” Companies should also have discipline, said Peter Ashe, vice president of operations at mobile robot provider Locus Robotics. He observed that the robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model is not just for shifting capital expenditures to operational expenses, but it’s also helpful…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.43
October 23, 2022
…has also developed a weeding system for farms, while Tertill has built robots for gardens. 3. Robots plant and seed on the farm In the past few years, engineers have pushed robotics to perform more complex tasks such as planting and seeding. Drones or uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can not only survey fields, but they can also support precision agriculture with real-time data collection for analysis and insight. Companies such as American Robotics and UAV Systems International have developed aerial imaging and seed-planting robots that can capture a bird’s eye-view of the farm and plant seeds according to the optimum…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.54
October 03, 2022
…invasive surgical robot this summer. On the consumer side, Tertill Corp. fielded several inquiries about its robot for weeding gardens. The technology can help busy people as they return to offices, noted Rory MacKean, co-founder and chief product officer at the North Billerica, Mass., company. The wedding robot is called Tertill and is sold on the company’s website for $349. “Tertill is a solar-powered weeding robot for vegetable and flower gardens,” MacKean said. “It’s waterproof, so you can leave it outside all season. Every day, it’ll charge itself up using sunlight and drive around avoid any plants.” Mobile systems draw…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.78
June 24, 2022
…Northstar Robotics, Parrots, RobotAI, Square Robot, Star Robotics and Tertill. Five volunteer startups participated in re:MARS, running live demonstrations of their technologies. After attending the four-week AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator, Helen Greiner, CEO of Tertill, shared the following insight from her experience. “The AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator delivered by MassRobotics will help robotics entrepreneurs who want to raise capital, refine their business model, and become part of a select cohort with mentors within AWS to help them,” she said. “This program will become a major force in accelerating the robotics industry.” This new round of applications will conclude with the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.22
May 04, 2022
…president of pioneering robotics company iRobot and CEO of Tertill; a recognized leader in the robotics field for more than 30 years. Peter Wurman: co-founder and former chief technology officer of mobile robot maker Kiva Systems, which was acquired by Amazon and rebranded to Amazon Robotics. He is currently Sony’s AI America director and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2020. Rick Faulk: CEO of Locus Robotics and former CEO of Quiet Logistics, with more than 30 years of experience in the logistics industry. Elaine Chen: a well-known roboticist, currently director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.18
February 04, 2021
…Director, Global Advanced Manufacturing Technology, AGCO Helen Greiner, CEO, Tertill Helena Samsioe, CEO and Founder, GLOBHE (Global Health) Amy Elliott, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Rosa Ciprian, Senior Electrical Engineer Lead, Alert Innovation Elena Messina, Group Leader Manipulation & Mobility Systems, NIST Christine Spiten, Co-founder, Blueye Robotics Nicole Renee Williams, Thermoplastic Composite Materials and Process Manager, The Boeing Co. Cynthia Breazeal, Professor and Associate Director, MIT Media Lab Leah Curry, President, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana The Feb. 2021 issue of Smart Manufacturing magazine provides a more extensive article detailing the accomplishments of the women selected in this exceptional group.…
