Speaker 0 00:00:02 Hello everyone. And welcome to the 83 robot industry podcast. I'd like to welcome the listeners from all over the world from Holland and Baltimore, Nutley, New Jersey and conception Bay South in Newfoundland, or like the locals call it CBS. I'm thrilled to have David Raigarh from neuro robotics. As the CEO, as one of the pioneers in this field, David gained over eight years of experience in developing and introducing one of the most sensitive and precise cobalt series on the market. The robotics market has developed with the introduction of cobots to become one of the largest and most profitable markets in the world. The intuitive programming has reopened the industry and everyone has a chance to participate in this multi-billion dollar market. However, no real revolution has been introduced so far present on the market. Cobots are blind, they're deaf, they're unsustainable and deficient David's personal mission is to revolutionize robot technology in the shortest possible time.
Speaker 0 00:01:00 And to reshape the robot market with new products. Furthermore, he sees an opportunity to open new markets and deployment fields through smarter cobots, which are equipped with human-like senses. David firmly believes that global problem like aging population can be solved with new these new types of robots. Neuro robotics products will be able to interact with humans just as people are used to interacting with each other. There's no complex programming or convoluted learning is required being a robotics advocate and visionary. David is aiming to bring robots in day-to-day chores and cover not only industrial needs, but also transform Spears like social care. So people are able to focus on more social and creative tasks adopting happier and healthier wives. David, welcome to the robot industry podcast. We're happy to have you.
Speaker 1 00:01:50 Hi Jim. I'm so thankful to be here. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Speaker 0 00:01:54 Give our audience a little bit of background about yourself and your company. I know started out in laser and server motor design and build.
Speaker 1 00:02:02 All right. Um, so where should I start? I start just right after high school. I actually, um, yeah, study age, actually mechanical design and um, yeah, so mostly in the field of castings structures. And um, so my first job was actually in the automotive industry where I was able to design some mode or costing parts and things like that, which was actually great. I love it, but still not something which fulfills me. So yeah, after some time I left actually to us for one and a half years to do some social work, to help actually people like, which are living in the streets or homeless people and also people which are came out of prisons to build them up again, bring them back to your life. And so my job was there as a case manager, I was also doing beading AA meetings and AA meetings.
Speaker 1 00:02:55 So it was a very interesting part of my life, but something was missing the engineering work. So that's why I decided to go back and, uh, applied for several jobs. And I got actually an amazing opportunity in Switzerland where, where, um, yeah. Uh, it was a company actually where they were looking for a new field or so they were talking about maybe 3d printing, maybe something like, uh, robotics. And, um, yeah, I loved the opportunity because I was one of the first there and we were actually in the beginning two later, we were three. So we started without having any knowledge about robots, designing robots after like a very short time, like in almost one year later we had a lot of success because we designed actually a new kind of cobalt. Uh, we forced talk sensors and like a very sensitive and precise one and then also, um, industrial robot and also like an AGV.
Speaker 1 00:03:55 So, and nobody was believing in because we did it like in a really crazy short time. So this is why, uh, yes, afterwards we had a very good reputation and yeah, that was actually the first time I got in touch with which robots and I was spending there about seven years in this company. And it wasn't a great time. We did great stuff, but it was still something missing and it was again, the social part. So I thought a robot should be somehow smarter, should be able to do more task or than just putting parts into a machine or something like that. So that's why, um, I was looking for also people which are thinking like me and I found like a 14 guys, which were like also crazy about robotics for 14 guys, the best one I know in robotics. And I took them together and we found it actually new robotics and yeah, that's actually the, the story about how we get there and why did we found it actually, because we saw a very big gap, first of industrial robots and cobots and the other also really having robots and a system because the last 100 years we know robots, but we still don't find them at home or, and that's as a reason.
Speaker 1 00:05:07 And that's why, and then what we found out
Speaker 0 00:05:09 Well, that's some very fascinating experiences in kind of integrating social innovation and technology. So what makes your robot different and unique?
Speaker 1 00:05:19 So it's also very simple as that, um, our robot is the first robot in a world, which actually knows that it can skin rubbish like humans from other objects because, um, so we saw actually the very big problem, like in the field that it's very difficult to really put cobots into the market because there's so many safety regulations and you are not allowed to put more forces on a human you're not allowed, whatever you're super slow and things like that. And, but there's defined how much force is even you can put on a body or, but the robot until there did not even know that it's a human. So does this actually the first thing we thought, okay, we have to improve. So our robot actually knows that there is a human, if you're around in three meter reach. So the other thing is, um, we are more accurate than any rebel in the world because we have a new, um, technologies, uh, invented like an encoder technologies, which makes our road much more precise than any others.
Speaker 1 00:06:17 So we are talking here about six to 10 migrants and, uh, precision and reliability. We are half like, um, all the performance, like we are faster than any COVID in the world. Like about four times then we have, um, also the very big key is actually we are able to interact with humans in a natural way, so we can talk with our robot. We can actually gay straight to our robot. We can actually, uh, like, like having a standard conversation with a robot and a robot and a stance by, by looking at us, listening to us or like we do actually as humans.
Speaker 2 00:06:54 That's very exciting. So David you're, you have changed your name recently and why is that? And I do like your new name.
Speaker 1 00:07:01 Thank you so much. Yeah. We also, we also like to the old name, that's actually, the whole reason was, um, our, one of our biggest investors is actually a Hunt's group or it's a very big known Asian company, which is doing laser technologies and like is also one of the leaders in this segment. So, and one of the biggest automation companies also in Asia and once they were like also our biggest investors. So, and there was for sure the, the ratio of them to, uh, to take the name of them are when they invested in us. So we did it actually, it was, um, you know, we were also proud of his name. That's, uh, we thought also because our dream is actually a little bigger. So we really plan about to have one day like going public, um, doing something even greater. And that's why we also changed a little bit, um, the architecture of our investors. And also we thought, okay, it's good to have a different name or even because they are also a stock listed Mar uh, company. And that's why I think it's not very, uh, like it's better. We have just a completely divided name from them. And we think also the new HRA tells a little bit more about our company because like something like new or no, like something like brain or something, which is smarter. And that's actually why we choose these names.
Speaker 2 00:08:22 Well, thank you for that. So who is going to be your bulls-eye customer, especially in, in North America?
Speaker 1 00:08:30 Um, yeah, the customers, firstly, actually we're looking right now, mostly in the, uh, industrial like manufacturing field because that's actually the known field or that's something which is very fast. We can adapt to any, any kind of application. And we are like, if we can really, we are just better than any other cobots and robots. Sorry. So it is very simple to get into this market, but uh, through our, and also AI features what we have inside, um, we can actually enable new markets. So is this, our future market is actually more into segments also in medical also and, and field off like even home care. And that's actually also right now, the whole country, uh, concentration. So this robots, which we now release are the perfect robots for industrial, uh, applications like manufacturing or everywhere, like pick and place, uh, maybe like, um, logistics and things like that, like for Amazon or whatever, our robot is smart has a camera.
Speaker 1 00:09:28 So it sees it can do task, very simple. Um, but also the future we think we believe actually that everybody, um, have one time a robot in their homes even, or like are in everywhere. So that's actually our dream. And also that what we are actually working on, it's not even a dream anymore. Actually we are very close to there because we are right now actually working in a super big project also in Asia that we bring actually robots into kitchens. We bring them even like in, in, uh, in S mustache robots in, in, in, in many kinds of fields because of the new senses we have, or so I think right now we start there in a manufacturing zone, like in, uh, they're very, it's actually the robot already at home or where everybody can imagine it. And I think the field is still very big and we should start there because it's the easiest way, way back to, we are still working actually on, on the very big project to have actually like a robot in everybody's home.
Speaker 2 00:10:29 And that's very exciting. And I think a lot of us have been waiting and wondering what, when and how, or this is going to happen. So what other next generation technologies do you see important for manufacturers, especially with, with regards to cobots?
Speaker 1 00:10:43 Um, you mean like, um, with our cohort, like what's, what's actually the next adventure or what the important actually yes, of course I have a very important part is actually I think every integrator knows actually what I'm talking about when I talk about interfacing with machines with different kinds of machines. Uh, I mean, not only just like, um, getting the robot programmed, it's also getting the robot inter interfacing with any kind of machines and like humans. So if we put a human in front of a machine to put parts inside, or we would just explain it or we would just say, okay, Hey, um, if this door opens or if this light turns green or if whatever, put this part from here to there and that's actually, uh, with our robot possible again, because our robot interv interacts with the natural way. So you can explain it.
Speaker 1 00:11:35 And it does. And also not just with the human, it also does with, with, uh, with the machine. Sorry. So just when we explain, like we do it with humans, so, and then we save a lot of costs actually, and we save also a lot of time because it's much easier. So our robot has actually many ways of getting programmed or so we can even, we can talk to our role. We can, we can show glaciers, but we can also have like a, like a smartphone, like a very super easy, um, the user interface where we can just drag and drop and, uh, very simply, and we can also combine all of them or so we have about six ways to get a roll programs and we can also use like many different ways or together. And that's
Speaker 2 00:12:20 Very exciting. And now your choice to your team, I assume is, uh, in Germany. So your choice has been to design and build a robot
Speaker 1 00:12:27 Germany. Yes. So, uh, we are actually designed, we designed already all the products there, so we are releasing actually next month. So it is, uh, very soon we release our, the first cognitive, uh, commercialized robot and, um, yes, the whole design, uh, all the prototypes. We did everything in Germany. Um, but right now we are working actually on that's why I'm right now, also in China, we are right now working also on a production line for certain components. And so I think it will be more mixed or things which are good to make here. Like in, in, in China we just do it in China and, uh, also other components and, uh, which are really important to do them in Germany. We just doing them in Germany. So it is, I think, um, we just find the best mix also. So we have also here in, in, uh, in China, we're in right now.
Speaker 1 00:13:17 So that's why I'm saying here. Um, there is actually, we have our production managers from Germany here and also like the whole team, like, uh, had a suffering everybody right now here to really build up the production lines for CO2 production because we have serious, really serious others. And, um, we have a really good high ramp up. So this is why right now we are every year we cannot do everything in Germany because I think we can first, we cannot meet the price, uh, price level we want to, because we have also a very low cost product. Uh, uh, even it's better than others, but low cost and, and the other side is also, um, yeah, and the high quantities and destroyed prime. That's actually just possibly here.
Speaker 2 00:14:00 You're having the same problem as a lot of manufacturers. Right. It's it's time to market, uh, for sure. So you've got a lot of exciting things happening and you must be, uh, even building out your team even more.
Speaker 1 00:14:12 Yes. Right. We are building really, really hard actually this year, we actually want to grow 150, uh, more people. And so here we are growing super fast and we have like a very high potential because we have like all this top companies, which are cooperating with us and we will very soon release like information about that and release products. And, um, I think, yes, I think from robotics field, we are one of the top companies right now for sure for the upcoming companies. And our goal is to, to be the number one worldwide. And we, we will do it and in very hard time because of our product and also the amazing team we have. Uh, David,
Speaker 2 00:14:57 Tell me a little bit about the team that is behind.
Speaker 1 00:15:02 Well, we have like the best team in the world and I think almost everybody says that, but we really have it. We have, um, like even at first day when we started, before we started with, with 14 amazing engineers, the best engineers who can find, um, actually in Europe and yeah, we, we started because everybody has a dream and a vision, uh, to make robotics differently, make robotics better and bring it to the next level. And they're actually, we, um, yeah, the, the guys which, which, which joined the team of neuro, uh, we were actually from the first day, they, they, they did not even have a contract or something because we did not even have, uh, the investment fixed or something. It was just thinking. And we were really believing that this time we should start. So they even quit their, all their jobs.
Speaker 1 00:15:51 We did some pop companies, which they were working in, uh, because they believed in it and they also like trusted me. And that's why, yeah, I'm super thankful for them every day. And now the whole team grown, but whole new people, mostly people like, which we know already from before. So we put them all together. And I think that's also the case why we were so super blessed and successful or because, um, yeah, even, even until now we have like many little startups in our startup or is it means we have like, like AI group or, and this is like the leader of it is like one of the, uh, they have, uh, he has, uh, CardioNet one of the biggest AI projects Europe's and, uh, he's like amazing. And he has like a amazing team also, and then also control or applications or for gooey, or like all this teams are hardware design, like in electrical and mechanical and whatever. And it was actually from the first day already there. And we are, I, I can just, uh, for everybody like to have the same, uh, guys as me as except our competitors.
Speaker 2 00:17:00 Well, that's great. Well, listen, I wanted to, uh, uh, thank you for coming on the podcast today and how, uh, how can people find out more about you and about you?
Speaker 1 00:17:09 So, um, firstly, to find me actually on LinkedIn, so David rigger and, um, yeah, they can also check out our website. We have an amazing website. There is coming many cool stuff in very soon. So we have already now cool videos there and stuff, but we will very soon have like a training center and things like that. So it's really cool in via like a virtual training centers. And so they can just join or like our website on neuron, um, uh, minus robotics.com and yeah, I'm happy to hear
Speaker 2 00:17:43 Nura is spelled N E U R a-robotics.com. Right?
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