Kinova Robotics, Cobots, #Automate2023 Show with Steven Green
Welcome to A3 | The Robot Industry Podcast # 94.
Steven Green is well known in the industry of robotics and automation in North America thanks to his diverse career of 28 years. He is a graduate of mechanical engineering from Queen’s University and has had leadership roles in several well known contributors to our industry including Prodomax Automation and KUKA Robotics. Steve is also an advocate and promoter of the next generation of automation specialists by working collaboratively with colleges on curriculum and student lab modernization projects, and has also been privileged to sponsor many high-school level robotics teams. Steve is a fellow Canadian but is currently working on the south side of the border in Michigan. Most recently Steve joined Kinova Robotics based out of Montreal, Quebec as their VP of industrial markets, responsible for Kinova‘s industrial market strategy and deployment.
Questions:
You have just joined Kinova can you tell our audience about the company?
You have worked for some other robot companies, what do you like about Kinova?
Montreal is a bit of a technology hotspot these days with robotics and automation can you tell our audience about the ecosystem in MTL?
Can you tell our audience about collaborative robots and some of the advantages to using collaborative technologies in their manufacturing operations.
What are the differences that Kinova offers?
How many people are at Kinova?
What robotic applications are you and the team at Kinova focusing on?
What is the Kinova Gen3 cobot?
Tell me about Link 6 cobot by Kinova?
You are going to be exhibiting at the Automation show in Detroit, can you tell us what you will be bringing to the show and what you hope to accomplish?
Tell me about some of your partners?
What is your booth number at Automate?
What do you see in the future for collaborative technologies?
What about Service and Support?
When you are not marketing and selling robots, what do you like to do?
I would like to acknowledge A3: the Association for Advancing Automation. they are the leading automation trade association for robotics, vision and imaging, motion control and motors and the industrial artificial intelligence technologies. Visit Automate dot org to learn more.
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We will see you next time. Thanks for listening, be safe out there.
Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank Chris Gray for the music, Geoffry Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsor Ehrhardt Automation Systems.
