The Robot Report Podcast

Ben Waters, CEO of Wibotic, joins Mike Oitzman and Gene Demaitre to discuss how wireless charging is evolving for larger, more autonomous robotics fleets. The conversation explores why opportunity charging—charging robots during natural idle moments—is becoming essential for maintaining uptime at scale. Ben explains the trade-offs between charging speed, battery size, infras...

Janine Sinanan-Singh, Director of Gen AI Research at Appen, joins Mike Oitzman and Gene Demaitre to discuss the data, evaluation, and human oversight needed to advance robotics and agentic AI. They explore how video and egocentric data can support robot training, why latency and generalization remain difficult, and where human judgment still matters. Janine describes Appen’s e...

The interview this week explores the European robotics market with OMRON’s Miguel Garces Moreno, covering growth in collaborative robots and AMRs, shifting demand toward sectors such as pharma, and the impact of labor shortages and supply-chain pressures. Miguel discusses how OMRON aims to stand out through software, navigation, safety, and fleet management—not hardware alone....

Sai Vemprala, CTO of General Robotics, talks about why robotics still faces a major gap between research and real-world deployment—and how the company’s Grid platform aims to close it. Their conversation explores robot-agnostic intelligence, simulation, reusable skills, deployment architecture, enterprise data ownership, and the growing role of agentic AI. Rather than relyin...