Our guest today is Dr. Yehuda Elmaliah, the founder and CEO of CogniTeam. CogniTeam is based in Petach Tikva, Israel, and has been developing artificial intelligence technologies for robots for over ten years, working with world-leading companies on mapping, navigation, and autonomous decision-making. Over the years CogniTeam developed a unique set of Robotic AI software working with Intel, Amazon, Mitsubishi, Siemens, and other blue chip companies. They have recently packaged this set of technologies in Nimbus, bringing a unique cloud-based robotic artificial intelligence solution in one easy-to-use platform.

Yehuda holds a Ph.D. in computer science specializing in multi-robot systems and is a leading expert on algorithms for robot autonomy. He spent seven years as a Dean of the computer science school at COMAS before starting CogniTeam with his co-founder Dr. Nachum Kaminka.

In this episode, we talk about why it takes many years to get an autonomous robot to market, how to speed this process up, what Cogniteam learned about building robots from their work with Intel, Amazon, and DARPA, and what is the next big step for autonomous robotics as a field. We also talk about why having happy team members is important for Yehuda, and what makes him feel like a dolphin.

Nimbus website: https://www.cognimbus.com/

Nimbus Demo and Trial: https://app.cognimbus.com/signup

Yehuda’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yehuda-elmaliah-01037b12/

SayCan paper by Robotics at Google and Everyday Robots: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.01691.pdf

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