Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton and Melonee Clever will focus on the way forward for warehouse automation at TC Disrupt 2023

Agility Robotics is on a gentle march towards commercialization, due to the continued development of robotics in warehouse success and logistics and the increasing characteristic set of its bipedal robotic. We’re excited to announce that Digit — escorted by co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton and Melonee Clever, the corporate’s new CTO — will be part of us September 21 on the {Hardware} Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.

Agility spun out of Oregon State College, with an preliminary concentrate on last-mile supply, however modified course to the thriving world of warehouse success and logistics. The corporate has been piloting Digit in warehouses.

In April 2022, Agility introduced a $150 million Sequence B, bringing its whole funding to $180 million. The corporate has put that cash to good use. One, by hiring Clever — Fetch co-founder and CEO (acquired by Zebra in 2021) — and two, by upgrading Digit.

Digit 2.0 sports activities two vital modifications over its ancestor — a head with LED animated eyes (to assist folks perceive the place it’s headed and its intentions) and a pair of finish effectors, that are easy palms that enhance its potential to make use of warehouse instruments, like bins.

We’re trying ahead to an enchanting dialog with Shelton and Clever about selecting a bipedal method to commercialized warehouse robots and a lot extra. We hope you’ll be part of us.

Damion Shelton: Agility Robotics co-founder and CEO

Damion Shelton is a multifaceted roboticist centered on constructing automation options that resolve real-world challenges, beginning with enhancing logistics and warehouse operations. Previous to co-founding Agility Robotics, Shelton co-founded threeRivers 3D, the place he served as CTO and designer of a low-cost, high-volume laser scanner for novice customers within the healthcare area. Shelton holds a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon College.

Melonee Clever: Agility Robotics CTO

Melonee Clever has a deep historical past in growing autonomous robots and advancing the robotics business as we all know it at this time. Previous to becoming a member of Agility in 2023, she was the vp of robotics automation at Zebra Applied sciences. She served as CEO of Fetch Robotics till its acquisition by Zebra Applied sciences in 2021.

Clever was the second worker at Willow Storage, the place she led a workforce of engineers growing next-generation robotic {hardware} and software program, together with ROS, the PR2 and TurtleBot. She serves because the chair of the IFR Service Robots Group, as a robotics board member for A3 and on the MHI Roundtable Advisory Committee.

Clever has obtained many accolades and awards, together with the MIT Expertise Evaluate TR35, Silicon Valley Enterprise Journal’s Ladies of Affect and 40 Beneath 40, and Enterprise Insider named her one among eight CEOs altering the best way we work. She obtained a BS in mechanical engineering and physics engineering and an MS in mechanical engineering from the College of Illinois.

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