Robert Playter
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1,075 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Stretch started differently than Spot.
Spot, we built because we had decades of experience building quadrupeds.
We had it in our blood.
We had to build a quadruped product.
But we had to go figure out what the application was.
And we actually discovered this factory patrol application, basically preventative maintenance, by seeing what our customers did with it.
Stretch is very different.
We started knowing that there was warehouses all over the world, there's shipping containers moving all around the world full of boxes that are mostly being moved by hand.
By some estimates, we think there's a trillion boxes, cardboard boxes, shipped around the world each year, and a lot of it's done manually.
It became clear early on that there was an opportunity for a mobile robot in here to move boxes around.
And the commercial experience has been very different between Stretch and with Spot.
As soon as we started talking to people, potential customers, about what Stretch was gonna be used for, they immediately started saying, oh, I'll buy, I'll buy that robot.
In fact, I'm gonna put in an order for 20 right now.
We just started shipping the robot in January after several years of development.
Of this year.
Of this year.
So our first deliveries of Stretch to customers were DHL and Maersk in January.
We're delivering to Gap right now.
And we have about seven or eight other customers, all who've already agreed in advance to buy between 10 and 20 robots.
And so we've already got commitments for a couple hundred of these robots.
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