Cobot - Collaborative Robotics, Inc

These days your website is your business card, your company brochure, and your gateway to a deeper connection with your customers and supporters. Similarly, your logo represents you in every digital and physical medium. As part of raising our Series A in 2023, we engaged Tom Vining and More Air to design a unique logo and brand styling. We also did a very rapid turn on our website, recognizing we didn't have a lot of visual content to share as our product was still in stealth. When Series B rolled around earlier this year, we decided to do only minor updates and just get back to building. But as part of our Proxie reveal, we knew we wanted to add a lot of video and motion to really highlight Proxie and our customers. Tom and his team were able to assess that the website topology we had built would continue to serve our needs even with a significant content refresh, saving us significant time and cost. We couldn't be happier with the quality of the result!

We decided in mid-September to reveal Proxie to the world before the holidays, giving us less than 10 weeks to pull it off. We knew we wanted to work with the most talented creative team we could find anywhere in the world, as well as a director who understood the story we wanted to tell about a future more alive with the help of robots, and a venue that paid homage to our industrial history. Finding a team that could do the quality of production we were hoping to achieve, as well as a venue that put Proxie in the best light, quite literally, was a tall order in such a short time frame. We had been inspired by the work Blonde Inc. out of Denmark had done with other brands to tell human stories connected with new technology. We were excited when they agreed to take on the project. We were confident Carl Feigenberg was the director who could bring the emotion to that story. We then searched all over for the best location for the shoot and found it right in our own backyard at The Bridge Yard in Oakland. I've talked about the community you build as a startup with an emphasis on building community with our customers, investors and employees. But you also create a community with the vendors you choose to work with. Over the next couple of days, I will highlight more of the amazing vendors we feel fortunate to have in our Cobot community. Thank you to Carl and Blonde Inc. for bringing Proxie's story to life at Bridge Yard. If you haven't seen the video, please check the comments for a link.

Excited to share that Proxie made its first conference appearance today - at the Mayo Clinic VIBE Automation Summit! Christina Zorn’s fireside chat this morning set an inspiring tone for the future of automation at Mayo and in healthcare in general. Mayo has been a visionary partner and investor in Cobot and we’re thrilled to be able to show Proxie for the first time here in sunny Rochester, Minnesota!

AWS re:Invent is amazing this year! The energy and excitement is contagious. We’re honored that Cobot - Collaborative Robotics, Inc was spotlighted in AWS CEO Matt Garman’s keynote at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2024. The keynote, packed with new innovations, featured Proxie, our cobot designed to handle material movement tasks in dynamic environments while working seamlessly alongside people. The video let me share more of our vision for robots that work alongside us in every sector, starting out with “Our preconceived notion of robots is they lack some empathy, they lack some interactivity; I don’t think it has to be that way.” We're excited to be working with AWS as well as industry leading customers like Maersk, Mayo Clinic, Moderna, Owens & Minor, and Tampa General Hospital to solve real-world automation challenges. Thank you to AWS for sharing more of our story. #reinvent #innovation #robotics

It’s an incredibly exciting time in robotics. We are starting to see how hardware and AI will fuse into far more capable and flexible solutions. For over two and a half years at Cobot, we’ve been quietly working on a new robot, Proxie, that fuses hardware and AI into a new form factor that we believe will change the way we think about the present and near future of robotics… a future where robots begin to take on a far more substantial amount of the physical work in the world around us, in every sector. Robots are physical artifacts with motion—and sometimes even a hint of emotion. You have to see them to understand. So why did we wait this long to share Proxie with you all? The first reason is simply we wanted to make sure Proxie could put in the hours of hard work in the real world. We’ve seen too many fancy robotics demos that failed to stand up to long hours in the real world, or weren’t strong enough or safe enough to confidently do the job along side human associates in production process paths. We now have over 5,000 operating hours in production operations working alongside humans. We’ve moved over 15,000 carts and traveled over 1,000 kilometers and moved over 5 million pounds of product. Proxie gets the job done in every meaning of that phrase. But the other reason is truly original designs are rare. Many robots are inspired by others or simply attempt to replicate biology. We knew Proxie was something novel and wanted to protect this design until we knew we could build consistently at the volume we need to begin to serve more customers. Today, we’re thrilled to share Proxie, our first mobile cobot, with the world. When new ideas first appear, they don’t always align with what we expect. Think of the original iPhone—curious and polarizing in a world of flip phones and thumb keyboards. But the more you thought about it, the more it made sense. We believe Proxie belongs in that category: something truly new, that challenges expectations, but resonates the more you consider its potential. Please enjoy our video and experience Proxie for yourself. We hope it sparks the same sense of possibility and curiosity in you that it has in us. If you’re a prospective customer, let’s connect. We’d love to understand your operations and explore how Proxie can help. #robots #ai #cobots #futureofwork

Congratulations to our colleagues at Cobot - Collaborative Robotics, Inc on a successful public launch last week. Looking forward to the work ahead and finding more ways to utilize robotics to support our staff, increase efficiency, and optimize human to human connections. Come see Proxie and all the great work Mayo Clinic is doing across the fields of Robotics and Automation at the VIBE Automation Summit on December 5th! #VIBE #automation #robotics