In Episode 232 of The Robotic Report Podcast, Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO of Ghost Robotics, discusses the journey of his firm, from its inception to changing into a frontrunner in legged robotics.
Kevin Kenneally, CEO and cofounder, Ghost Robotics. | Credit score: Ghost Robotics
He highlights the distinctive challenges and benefits of legged robots in contrast with their wheeled counterparts, emphasizing their potential to navigate tough terrains.
In 2014, Kenneally and Avik De based Ghost Robotics after efficiently growing a number of direct-drive robots, like Minitaur. Gavin initially held the function of chief expertise officer when Jiren Parikh joined the corporate as CEO.
The firm launched the Imaginative and prescient 60 in 2020, whereas the workforce grew to 10 workers. Ghost Robotics additionally deployed the primary base safety robotic at Tyndall AFB.
Previously yr, the corporate has grown to 60+ workers, delivered enhancements to the Imaginative and prescient 60 platform, together with new payload improvement and manipulator arm attachments. The firm has additionally began to market to the industrial sector.
Kenneally will likely be talking on the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston in Might.
Present timeline
- 3:27 – Information of the week
- 23:54 – Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO, Ghost Robotics
Information of the week
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to deploy Agility’s Digit humanoids
Agility Robotics has signed an settlement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, or TMMC, to deploy its Digit robotic in its services after a profitable year-long pilot.
TMMC is Toyota Motor Corp.’s largest manufacturing operation exterior of Japan, with car meeting crops in Cambridge and Woodstock, Ontario. The unit has assembled automobiles since 1988, together with greater than 535,000 in 2025, and it employs over 8,500 individuals. The firm final month stated it might construct its Sixth-generation RAV4 at TMMC’s crops, investing $1.1 billion.
TMMC’s pilot concerned three Digits and included improvement, proof-of-technology, and onsite phases. The corporate stated it plans to now deploy seven humanoids to load and unload totes from an automatic tugger, with extra robots to come back if they’re profitable.
Along with the work that Digit is already doing, Agility and TMMC will assess extra use circumstances for robots and AI in help of workers in manufacturing, provide chain, and logistics operations.
Amazon’s Blue Jay sortation venture fails to take flight
Amazon has reportedly pulled the plug on certainly one of its latest warehouse robots, just a few months after unveiling it. Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system that the corporate launched in October for its same-day supply warehouses, quietly shut down in January, in keeping with individuals acquainted with the matter.
Many workers who labored on the venture have been reassigned to different robotics initiatives, the individuals added, whereas asking to not be recognized, discussing personal issues.
“A number of people at Amazon who’ve been terminated contacted me to inform me about Orbital, Amazon’s new robotic success platform,” wrote provide chain analyst Britain Ladd on LinkedIn. “Orbital is a alternative for the LVM or Native Merchandising Machine, which was Amazon’s model of a micro-fulfillment heart. LVM has been canceled. This hasn’t been beforehand reported.”
One well being system stops utilizing Moxi robotic
A month after Serve Robotics stated it deliberate to accumulate Diligent Robotics, the developer of the Moxi hospital supply robotic, The Information Tribune stated {that a} healthcare system had stopped utilizing the robotic.
“In Tacoma, a hospital system quietly ended its deployment of Moxi, a nursing-support robotic as soon as positioned as a method to free clinicians from routine duties,” stated the newspaper. “In response to questions from The Information Tribune, MultiCare media consultant Scott Thompson stated by way of e-mail on Feb. 12, ‘We ended our contract with Moxi a couple of yr in the past.’”
“We discovered it wasn’t financially sustainable for us to maintain utilizing the robots,” wrote Thompson. “The price didn’t justify their degree of utilization.”
Pal of the present Aaron Prather posted this on his LinkedIn feed:
