2022-Korea-Showcase-Skylla-Technologies

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KOTA WEAVER: It's a little bit-- going to be a little bit tough for me to follow that up because I can't make the jokes in Korean. So again, thank you for having us here. I'm Kota Weaver. I'm here to represent Skylla Technologies. And we're a robot AI company dealing with basically modeling and mimicking human behavior and-- our human behavior and human spaces.

So we were founded in 2017 by a group of robotics and AI exp-- ooh, I can take this off-- by a group of robotics and AI experts from MIT. And we're located about 25 minutes north of Boston. So we have access to all that talent there. And now really, again, our goal is to make factories and also spaces, human spaces, more effective and efficient for robots to collaborate with those people through more of a robot-centric intelligence.

So this is the founding team. And this is the part where I have to talk about the MIT connection. So Harry Asada is a professor there, world-renowned robotics professor, and Dr. Sheng Liu is our president, who has a PhD in robotics from MIT as well. So there are a number of different challenges that come into play when discussing factories and bringing robots, mobile robots, into those factories and really transforming old school factories into these newer, innovative, clean places.

And so they can range from space issues, cost issues. And so it's very common now to start thinking about things like mobile manipulators. But they run into problems as well, like accuracy and being able to navigate in these dynamic spaces that are modern factories.

So for that, we've developed a controller that serves as your software or your brain for your vehicles and for your robots. And actually, I should mention that this can also be used for-- we are working on other areas like OHTs as well. So the technology is actually much more applicable than just AMRs.

So really at the heart of it is this human-centric navigation. And for that, we've been training and teaching robots how people behave. And by being able to predict that motion and also by being able to mimic and to understand what motions are the most similar to what humans have, then we are able to move around much more effectively and much more safely.

We also have 0.3 millimeters of endpoint positioning accuracy with our robot arms. So that's almost as good as a fixed robot arm. Naturally, we spend a lot of time doing perception and making these things easy for users to use. So again, all this started by collecting terabytes of data of people walking around, so just their legs primarily and also some information from cameras.

And this allowed us to extrapolate out, to take out really the behaviors of those people and turn it into something where we can identify which paths are the most human-like and classify which one of those things are dangerous and effective to get to where we're trying to go.

So at Skylla, we have key IPs in four main areas. And these are the human movement model, the precision mobile manipulation, and also the robot-to-human collaboration and robot-and-robot collaboration. So those are all areas that we have patents in. And then we also have these four other gears represent our core competencies. And so that includes things like modeling and simulation, but also computer vision and data analytics.

So I want to just highlight one use case that we have here. So this is-- we've been working with DMG MORI, which is I believe the world's largest machine tools company. So basically, cutting tools for metal. And they use Jetstream in order to power a product that they have called WH-AMR5. And this is a mobile manipulator, so a vehicle with a robot arm on it.

And these are being used across Japan to really expedite the process of being able to move components and work pieces between different machines in the factory. We've also been helping them put together a couple of other products surrounding or based on this technology.

So at Skylla, we have a couple different products. We have the main Jetstream core software platform, and that includes the controller, but we also do license the technology both as a whole and also in parts. We also have a fleet management server. So you can do all your monitoring of a bunch of different robots and also do some coordination between them.

And then we also have-- yeah. We also do nonrecurring engineering because we really want to understand what our customers' problems are. So we want to work with our customers to really create something that's unique for them and can solve the real-world problems that they have.

Now, these are just a handful of areas that Jetstream is currently being used or that we think Jetstream is applicable for, so things like inspection, machine tending, material transfer, many others. And so what we're here to look for is to expand our base of customers and strategic partners to develop both new mobile manipulation platforms and to retrofit and to really expand on your existing vehicles and systems.

And really, we're currently focused on expanding into indoor and outdoor hybrid use cases and clean room applications. And also we're looking for a partnership for fleet management-related navigation. We actually have a long history of working with companies in East Asia, and we actually have a partner company here in Korea that I'll actually be here to see again in a week.

But that will serve as our main distribution and support contact in East Asia. So I'll be out there after the pitches, and please feel free to come talk to me or reach out. All right. Thank you very much.

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