The Robot Industry Podcast

• Predictive Maintenance using AI with Soralink's Yun Yao

  Welcome to podcast # 150! My guest for this edition is Dr. Yun Yao. Yun Yao, holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, is a dynamic professional known for her creativity and ambition. In 2010, she co-founded Tactile Labs, a non-profit organization that advances haptics research, where her leadership has fostered innovation and collaboration. After completing her PhD, Yun became a senior engineer, designing wireless communication systems, excelling both technically and in leading innovation initiatives. In 2021, she co-founded Soralink to integrate AI and IoT into the food manufacturing and processing industry, aiming to apply cutting-edge technologies to real-world challenges. Yun's career reflects her commitment to pushing technological boundaries, fostering collaboration and driving transformational change across industries. Designed and made in Canada (Montreal), Soralink offers a complete solution for industrial machine condition monitoring, failure prediction, predictive maintenance, as well as productivity tracking. Their solution includes smart AI sensors, LTE connectivity, and AI prediction engine. Yun thanks for joining me for the podcast. Why did you start the company? Montreal is kind of a hotspot in North America for AI, Why is that? What is AI? What is Model Drift? What is an algorithm? Tell us about Soralink (are you an integrator)? People that think AI is Chat GPT? How are companies ready for AI? Fit bit for the machines What are some of the challenges that you face in collecting information Tell us about AI in Canada manufacturing What is keeping mfgs awake at nights? Who are you having the conversations with ? CEO CTO How do you get started in the conversation; AI in manufacturing Do you have some Use cases that you can tell us about When is AI not a good fit? Is it good to work on a simple project or a big, complex project? How long does a project take? Are there ongoing costs to an AI project? What are the outcomes? What are the deliverables? Did we forget to talk about something? How do people find out more about you and how do they contact you? What is your booth number at ADM show Some information about ADM Toronto 2025: The Advanced Manufacturing show happens in Toronto at the Toronto Congress Center, TCC which is right by the airport, which is actually located in Etobicoke on 650 Dixon Road. Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. I know that ADM is one big show, but how is the show divided up? Yes there are 6 co-located shows Packaging | Automation | Design and manufacturing | Plastics and Processing | EV technology Here is the show URL: https://www.admtoronto.com/en/lp-general.html You can use the code ROBOT to register. If that doesn't work try: SHIFT. Some info on Soralink: https://soralink.co/en/ And to get in touch with Yun: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsinyun/ See you at the show! Thanks, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast London, ON [email protected] 519-716-2262 Mobile

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• Promoting and Promotions at Trade Events | ADM Toronto 2025 for Event Professionals

  Hello Everyone, Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #149 This episode too is a little different for The Robot Industry Podcast. This episode is about sponsorships and their efficacy. Informa is a client for over 15 years (aka UBM, and Canon Communications). I have been involved in the ADM (Advanced Design & Manufacturing) Toronto and ADM Montreal shows for many years. If you know me, you may have fielded a phone call or read an email about the show and the efficacy of being involved in trade events. I have invited Gayle Hutchens, who directs sponsorships at shows. Some information about ADM Toronto 2025: The Advanced Manufacturing show happens in Toronto at the Toronto Congress Center, TCC which is right by the airport, which is actually located in Etobicoke on 650 Dixon Road. Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. I know that ADM is one big show, but how is the show divided up? Yes there are 6 co-located shows Packaging | Automation | Design and manufacturing | Plastics and Processing | EV technology Here is the show URL: https://www.admtoronto.com/en/lp-general.html You can use the code ROBOT to register. If that doesn't work try: SHIFT. See you there. Thanks, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast London, ON [email protected] 519-716-2262 Mobile

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• Advanced Design & Manufacturing Toronto Trade Show ADM 2025

  Hello Everyone, This episode is a little different for The Robot Industry Podcast. I have invited some of my friends from the ADM Toronto 2025 show to join me to talk about the upcoming show. Informa is a client for over 15 years (aka UBM, and Canon Communications). I have been involved in the ADM Toronto and ADM Montreal shows for many years. If you know me, you may have fielded a phone call or read an email about the show and the efficacy of being involved in trade events. I have invited Kayle Kvinge, who is the show director, Annie Helfgott our mentoring expert and Gayle Hutchens, who directs sponsorships at shows ( we moved Gayle, and she is up on the next podcast #149) as we ran out of time. Some information about ADM Toronto 2025: Happens at Toronto Congress Center on Oct. 21-23, 2025 The Advanced Manufacturing show happens in Toronto at the Toronto Congress Center, TCC which is right by the airport, which is actually located in Etobicoke on 650 Dixon Road. Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. I know that ADM is one big show, but how is the show divided up? Yes there are 6 co-located shows Packaging | Automation | Design and manufacturing | Plastics and Processing | EV technology Who are some of the partners in the event? PAC Global the packaging association, Global Leader in Sustainable, Inclusive, and Accessible Solutions Invest Quebec Cosmetic Alliance Canada Canadian Chamber of Commerce Charged EV Volta Foundation Accelerate and Engineering Societies of Canada including Professional Engineers in Ontario and Society of woman engineers There are lots of exhibitors: Fanuc Canada, Kuka Robotics, SEW, Beckhoff Automation Reiser Canada, NuMove, Plexpack, Capmatic and Shawpack, Premier Tech Proto3000, IKO Thompson, Stratasys Absolute Haitian, Kubota Brabender, Piovan and Tiger Vac Unitrack Corporation, Meridian Manufacturing, Soralink and Vooban Here is the show URL: https://www.admtoronto.com/en/lp-general.html You can use the code ROBOT to register. See you there. Thanks, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast London, ON [email protected] 519-716-2262 Mobile

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• How to Buy a Factory Automation System with Bruce Polson from Ehrhardt Automation

  Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast #147. My guest for this segment is Bruce Polson whom I have known for decades. He is a very smart guy. Bruce has over 30 years of experience in automation and engineering.  He began as a process engineer and consumer of automation, establishing a background in processes such as forming, welding, material handling, joining, and discrete assembly.  In automation, he began as an application engineer and eventually migrated into business development, where he has been for the last 15 years. Who is Ehrhardt Automation? How do you buy and automation system? So Bruce, how do you prepare as a manufacturer? How do they, the prospective customer, set up a budget? What if you don’t have a spec document? What are the key elements of the type of automation company that you might want to engage in? How about 3rd party suppliers, like robot companies, can they help? Questions that a prospective customer should ask the supplier? What if you are a new user of automation? Did we miss anything? If someone wants to find out more about how they can put automation into their facility, how do they get a hold of you? Email and phones are still the best ways. [email protected] / 952-290-3384 https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-polson-aa43b213 When you are not helping people get the automation that they need, 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. If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/ Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/ Warm Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

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• AI-Hybrid Automation with a Deployed Mobile Manipulation Robot | Diligent Robots' Vivian Chu

  Hello Robot Friends. Welcome to edition #146 of The Robot Industry Podcast. My guest today is Vivian Chu. Vivian Chu is a roboticist with over a decade of experience in human-robot interaction. She created Moxi and Poli, and applied her HRI and machine learning expertise to platforms like PR2, Meka, and Kinova Jaco2. She has worked at Google[X], Honda Research Institute, and IBM Research. Vivian holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Tech and an M.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania. She’s been recognized by MIT Technology Review (35 Innovators Under 35), Fortune (40 Under 40), named a Google Anita Borg Scholar and Stanford EECS Rising Star, awarded Best Cognitive Robotics Paper at ICRA, and featured on Robohub’s 25 Women in Robotics list. Questions: Vivian, Tell us about Diligent, who are you and what do you make? Where are you located? How did you get interested in robotics and automation? What is Moxi? Why did you decide on hospitals as your first use case? Who are the economic drivers and decision makers in hospital and what are their pain points? What are some of the surprises that you learned from hospitals, about robotics? Why Diligent chose to go AI-hybrid, vs all-in on AI? The importance of execution > demos and what deployment taught Diligent that the lab couldn’t Building robots with a “human-first approach,” designing robots to serve as coworkers instead of replacements. The key design elements that make Moxi ultra- adaptable, dexterous, and safe? Let’s talk about data? Is this something that hospitals are interested in? You just brought in some new executives to your team. What is next for Diligent — now that you have proven yourselves in hospitals, do you have plans to expand into offices, factories? What makes your stack capable of doing so? Future of robotics working with people? Did we forget to talk about anything? You are a busy, new mom. When you are not automating, innovating, building robots, or working with companies and AI, what do you enjoy doing for hobbies? How can people get a hold of you and find out more about Diligent? I would like to mention 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. If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me jim beretta on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimberetta/ Today’s podcast was produced by Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our new sponsor: Mecademic Industrial Robots ~ world-leading manufacturers of compact and precise industrial robots. https://mecademic.com/ Thanks, too, to our regular sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, located in Granite City, Illinois. Warm Regards, Jim Jim Beretta Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast London, ON

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