New VofV Podcast Episode – What Happens When Your Co-Worker is a Robot?
Posted on October 26, 2021 08:30 AM by WGCIT
From a robot obsession while attending Harvard Business School to traveling 2,700 miles and sleeping in his car just to meet with farmers, Charlie Andersen has achieved his dream: to build a robot company that solves agriculture’s labor woes.
In the newest episode of Voices of the Valley, Burro CEO Charlie Andersen shares how he and his team recently raised a $ 10.9 million Series A funding and plan to release 500 self-driving wheelbarrows into ag within the next year. These small robots, akin to Disney’s Wall-E, automate some of the hard manual labor within ag. Listen as Charlie outlines his recipes for success (hint: persistence), analyzes the future of agtech (think: startups building on other startup’s tech) and how to quickly grow a robot army from 1 to 500. Bonus: Charlie, who won $250K at the Western Growers AgSharks Competition in 2018, shares the top tips on how to leverage collaboration to successfully build people-scaled products (aka tech that works alongside people to help them work more productively).
Listen to Charlie’s episode and subscribe to the Voices of the Valley podcast in several ways:
- Listen on Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/voicesofthevalley
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- Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=654171
Visit the Burro (formerly Augean Robotics) website to learn more about robots that can navigate anywhere, recognize anything and increasingly manipulate the world.
The Voices of the Valley Podcast is hosted by Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology. To learn more about the Voices of the Valley podcast or to be featured as a guest, contact Dennis Donohue at ddonohue@wga.com.