Elon Musk puts spotlight on Israeli robotics startup
A tweet by Musk about SqUID, an automated warehouse picker developed by BionicHIVE, has generated huge interest. The robot future is coming tweeted super-entrepreneur Elon Musk about a video clip showing warehouse logistics robot SqUID, developed by Israeli startup company BionicHIVE of Kibbutz Sha ar HaNegev.
The clip shows the robot moving down an aisle, climbing shelves, picking parcels, and returning to the aisle, all completely autonomously. The clip has had some 1.9 million views, while Musk s comment has been retweeted some 1,900 times.
BionicHIVE was founded by four young people from the Eshkol Regional Council area in the south of Israel: Liran Raizer, Itamar Levy, Tomer Amit, and Olivier Haddad. The company has developed a robot that can adapt itself to existing logistics centers. The company s technology derives from know-how gained by the entrepreneurs in developing military robotic systems and simulators. In 2017
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By Shimon B. Lifkin
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Monday, January 18, 2021 at 4:04 pm | ה שבט תשפ א
Robots moving along the warehouse floor with packages before finding the proper delivery chute, at an Amazon warehouse facility in Goodyear, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
All it took was a single tweet from entrepreneur Elon Musk to catapult an obscure Israeli startup company into the cynosure of global high tech.
“The robot future is coming” tweeted Musk about a video clip showing warehouse logistics robot SqUID, developed by BionicHIVE of Kibbutz Sha’ar HaNegev.
The clip shows the robot navigating aisles, climbing shelves, picking parcels, and returning to the aisle, completely autonomously. The clip has had some 1.9 million views, and Musk’s comment has been retweeted some 1,900 times, said Globes on Monday.