“At Amazon, we looked a lot at humanoids,” Porter says. “There are real problems to be solved with something more human capable, but jumping all the way to a humanoid is super complicated. The AI, it’s not really there yet.”
Instead, Proxie could replace more and more menial tasks that human beings often don’t want to do. Erez Agmoni, a general partner at Interwoven Ventures who was involved with bringing the Cobot pilot to Maersk, says it has been very promising and has the potential to be expanded.
“The main reason is their ability to utilize collaborative robots to support the teams without huge modifications to the warehouse or current equipment,” he says. “The team hated pushing the carts, which are very heavy, and they welcome the robots doing it.”
Fady Saad, founder of Cybernetix, a Boston-based venture capital firm specializing in robotics, says Cobot is going after a big …