Carla Gómez Cano, Co-founder at THEKER: Theker Robotics’ generalist robots automate any factory task
Scaling EuropeShow Notes
THEKER Robotics builds robots that takes over the hardest physical labor inside heavy factories.
Carla Gómez Cano is Co-founder at THEKER. Their robots that do manual, physical work, like moving packages, assembling parts and folding garments, and use smart software to handle any task or material on a single platform. The company recently raised an $85m Series A, one of the largest robotics rounds ever in Europe.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction 0:12 - THEKER's $85m Series A 0:54 - What THEKER's robots do today 4:11 - Why THEKER skips pilots 5:03 - Building a robotics company from Barcelona 7:10 - Reconfigurable robots vs. humanoids 10:02 - Biggest bottleneck: hiring 13:01 - The robotics-as-a-service model 16:14 - Biggest lesson: staying focused 17:15 - What's next for THEKER
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