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Rick Faulk on Locus Robotics, Warehouse Automation, and Physical AI
Warehouse automation is not about building the flashiest robot.
It is about solving the right problem at scale.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics, about what it really takes to deploy robots inside working warehouses and why the future of physical AI may look very different from the humanoid hype cycle.
Rick explains how Locus grew out of a major logistics problem. Quiet Logistics had been using Kiva robots before Amazon acquired Kiva and took the product off the market. Instead of returning to a manual operation, the team started…
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