PODCAST: ARGO.AI shuts down; Covariant CEO discusses RaaS performance

Welcome to Episode 97 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies and other key members of the robotics community.

This week, cohosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the news this week about the shutdown of autonomous driving technology company ARGO.AI. The company is being dissolved and the technology and team members are going to be distributed to leading funders FORD and VW.

Finally this week, Mike speaks with Peter Chen, CEO of Covariant.AI, about the company’s new RaaS solution, CovariantOne, which is built on service level agreements (SLAs) for the performance of the Covariant warehousing solution.

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Mike Oitzman

Mike Oitzman is Senior Editor of WTWH's Robotics Group, cohost of The Robot Report Podcast, and founder of the Mobile Robot Guide. Oitzman is a robotics industry veteran with 25-plus years of experience at various high-tech companies in the roles of marketing, sales and product management. He can be reached at moitzman@wtwhmedia.com.