공급망의 로봇 공학: 자재 이동 및 자동화 간소화

### 미트라 로보틱스: 간단하고 비용 효율적인 솔루션으로 창고 자동화에 혁신을 일으키다
* 🏭 Mitra Robotics는 자재 이동을 위한 간단하고 사용자 친화적이며 비용 효율적인 솔루션을 제공함으로써 **자동화가 부족한 창고의 90%를 해결하는 것**을 목표로 합니다.
* 🤖 이 회사의 기술은 **강철 격자 구조와 완전한 3차원으로 움직이는 로봇**으로 구성되어 기존의 컨베이어와 엘리베이터 없이도 유연한 창고 운영을 가능하게 합니다.
* 💰 7,800만 달러의 자금으로 Mitra Robotics는 **최대 3,000파운드까지 수평 및 수직으로 움직일 수 있는 안정적이고 확장 가능한 제품**을 개발하고 있습니다.
* 🤝 이 기술은 창고 및 제조 환경에서 **인간 또는 휴머노이드 로봇의 노동력을 대체하는 것이 아니라 보완**하도록 설계되었습니다.
* 🔮 테슬라와 리비안에서 근무했던 크리스 테이어(Chris Thayer) CEO는 **옵티머스 같은 복잡한 휴머노이드 로봇 프로젝트와 달리 창고 자동화에서는 단순성과 실용성이 중요**하다고 강조합니다.
* 💼 Thayer는 **향후 2년간의 개발과 고객 확보**가 Mitra Robotics가 수익을 창출하고 잠재적으로 추가 자금을 유치하는 데 매우 중요할 것이라고 생각합니다.
* 🌐 이 회사는 이미 **앨버트슨과 같은 포춘 100대 기업**을 고객으로 확보하고 있으며, 향후 시장 입지를 확대하는 데 주력하고 있습니다.

Mitra Robotics는 자재 이동을 위한 비용 효율적이고 사용자 친화적인 솔루션을 통해 창고 자동화를 간소화하는 것을 목표로 합니다.

This is interesting.
It's not necessarily a crowded field, but I'd say we've had several startups
on the show focusing in the field of robotics.
What is specific about your technology and your ambitions on how it's used in
the real world? Sure.
Morning, Ed. Thanks for having me on the show.
Appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, the challenge is, is that
90% of warehouses today have no meaningful automation.
So there's a product market fit gap. At Tesla, we experienced some of the
challenges with the current state of automation.
We endeavor to make something extremely simple, user friendly, and the more
simplistic we can make the system, the more cost effective and universal and
flexible the solution could be. And the more people want to use it.
You've got Fortune 100 customers already, Albertsons, for example.
What is it that the robotics are solving for them already?
What is it that Roberts is not not

solving for them?
Well, if you look at the traditional, it is solving for them.
What is the positive? What are you finding that is already the
application, Chris? Oh, sure.
What is it we are solving? Yeah.
So we're, we're focused on moving material at the power level.
It's the bread and butter of supply chain.
Almost everything you see around you has been in a pallet at one point.
And we're doing that a much more simple and inefficient way through the use of
just two products. It's really a steel lattice structure
and a bot that moves in full three dimensions, which allows you to
basically use software to define how your warehouse operates versus
traditionally using mechanisms like conveyors and elevators and that sort.
$78 million. I can't tell if that's quite a lot of
money or not enough money to launch a product like this.
Scale it and put it into the real world. You tell me.
It sounds like a lot, of course.

But, you know, you have to keep in mind
that there's seven different engineering disciplines.
And, you know, it's it's incredibly important to make the product reliable,
scalable, etc. I mean, automotive companies spend quite
a little bit of money on the manufacturing and the development to
bring an electric vehicle to market. We're essentially bringing a small
electric vehicle that not only moves £3,000 in the horizontal plane, but also
moves it up and down. Reliable, scalable, and with in a near
term ideal of being useful. Now what's so interesting is your
background having been at Rivian, but also at Tesla.
What about to get Tesla numbers? We're about to fixate upon Optimus and
once again a slight delay to its practical use cases.
What was it like at Optimus and how did you decide that you had to do something
different because perhaps of the delays that.
Yeah. My background at Tesla was a very
interesting one.

I had experienced both on the traditional warehouse side and trying to get material flow up and running for it to support Model three manufacturing. And then was also asked and tasked to lead the Optimus program. You know, humanoid robotics, absolutely fascinating. Had a blast working on those problems and leading that team. But ultimately, it's a bit of a ninth inning problem. And there's innings four or five, six and seven, etc. that still need to be solved. And you know, for the next 10 to 15 years of my career, as well as the rest of the team that's joined us on this mission, we're really solving a very critical problem in supply chain with a very simple and indirect form factor. I guess philosophically, but also from an engineering perspective. Why is the direction you're going better than the use case of a humanoid robot, such as Optimus, in the warehouse or manufacturing environment? It's a great question.

I don't know if one is better or worse
than the other. I would say they're solving two very
different problems. What's very unique about humans is, is
their ability to manipulate and reason at the edge.
And that's where a humanoid robot is, is very powerful.
But when you look at what's moved around in a warehouse, in a manufacturing
facility, a lot of those that material weighs hundreds, if not thousands of
pounds. And that's not something that a human
really is is designed to do. So you can think of what we're building
at Mitra is something that's very complementary or orthogonal to humanoid
robotics or humans in general. Okay.
So you're going to work in line sort of in a sophisticated manner to work
alongside the future of an Optimus? You've got strategic investment.
I'm assuming you've already raised, what, $78 million in funding.
How expensive does this get?

How many more rounds of funding do you need, Chris? Yeah. I mean, it's unclear at this point. Our goal is to execute as quickly and as efficiently as possible. You know, the next two years will develop the system, invest in the team, and launch to a few more customers. And in that time, you know, that we'll be generating revenue and, you know, the funding environment in two years. Who knows what that will be like. But it's safe to say that funding can help accelerate the mission. It's not necessarily always required for a company to exist.

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창고 90%의 자동화 부족 문제를 해결하기 위해 이 회사는 간단하고 사용자 친화적이며 비용 효율적인 로봇 시스템을 만드는 데 주력하고 있습니다.

기존의 컨베이어 시스템을 대체하는 강철 격자 구조와 3D 봇으로 공급망의 자재 이동을 혁신하는 것을 목표로 하는 이 솔루션은 이미 앨버트슨과 같은 포춘 100대 고객사의 관심을 끌었습니다.

이 회사는 7800만 달러를 모금하여 혁신적인 제품을 출시하고 실제 적용을 위해 확장하고 있습니다.

엔지니어링 분야와 전기 자동차 개발

전기 자동차를 안정적이고 확장 가능하며 실용적으로 단기간에 사용할 수 있도록 만드는 데 중요한 7가지 엔지니어링 분야가 있습니다.

인터뷰 대상자는 리비안과 테슬라에서 근무하며 제조 지연 문제를 해결하고 휴머노이드 로봇 프로젝트를 주도한 경험이 있습니다.

현재는 창고 및 제조 환경에서 옵티머스와 같은 휴머노이드 로봇을 사용하는 것과 달리 보다 직접적인 엔지니어링 접근 방식으로 공급망 문제를 해결하는 데 초점을 맞추고 있습니다.

Mitra의 로봇 공학은 창고와 제조업에서 무거운 자재를 취급하도록 설계되어 휴머노이드 로봇과 인간의 능력을 보완합니다.

이 회사는 로봇공학의 미래에 대한 전략적 투자를 위해 약 7,800만 달러라는 상당한 규모의 자금을 조달했습니다.

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