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October 11, 2019 | Panel talks about Robots & Labor Shortage

The robotics for manufacturing panel in Pittsburgh all agreed that there is a growing labor shortage in the manufacturing industry and pointed to a recent study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute stating that as many as 2.4 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled between now and 2028. "Robotics and automation are among the strategies that manufacturers are planning to employ to reduce this gap... Read more

September 24, 2019 | Robotics Boosts Manufacturing and Jobs
Thrival Festival highlights Pittsburgh as a high-tech powerhouse

CapSen Robotics CEO Jared Glover talked @ThrivalFestival Innovation Summit last week about creating disruptive robotics technology to help companies cut costs and create jobs in Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain. He was joined in the discussion panel at the Carnegie Museum of Art by ARM's Suzy Teele, RE2 Robotic's Jorgen Pedersen, and IAM Robotics' Joel Reed.

November 20, 2017 | ARM Institute Groundbreaking
CapSen was honored to take part in the new Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute groundbreaking ceremony in a former steel mill in Hazelwood, Pittsburgh. Our first public demo of CapSen PiC went off without a hitch!

Press coverage: CBS (KDKA) NPR (WESA)

December 2016 | PTC teQ Magazine
teQ is a magazine published by the Pittsburgh Technology Council that features news and information about the local tech industry. We were one of 50 companies chosen to be featured in its Robotics/Tech 50 issue, in an article describing our company's mission.

Click here and scroll to page 9 to see the article!

October 12th, 2016 | CEO Webcast
CapSen CEO, Jared Glover, presented a webcast discussing 3D vision and how our company is pushing the technology forward. Advancement and application in the field of factory automation and warehousing were some of the main topics of discussion. Thanks to Vision Systems Design for hosting us and to Point Grey, Osela, and LMI Technologies for sponsoring the webcast!

Click here to register and view Jared's webcast!

July 29th, 2016 | The Proud Company
We were one of several companies invited to present our technology at an open house hosted by The Proud Company. We partnered with a local robotics company, Hebi Robotics, to produce a bin picking solution for factory automation. Many thanks to The Proud Company for hosting us and to Hebi Robotics for the collaboration!

October 9th, 2015 | Charity: Water
Thanks to Beth Gee and the rest of the Founders Forum team for inviting us to Charity: Water this week! We got to bring the ping pong robot that Jared worked on at MIT and see it play against a bunch of other tech entrepreneurs. Thank you also to MIT and Barrett for lending us the equipment! We'll give it back soon, we promise ;)

June 5th, 2015 | Alpha Lab Gear
A big thank you to everyone who attended Alpha Lab Gear's Demo Day and to all the wonderful staff at Innovation Works for organizing the event! We had a great time at the AlphaLab Gear startup accelerator program in Pittsburgh this past year.

May 29th, 2015 | Amazon Picking Challenge
Congratulations to Team MIT for coming in 2nd place at the Amazon Picking Challenge!! Using our CapSen Detection object recognition software, they successfully retrieved the first 7 objects in a row from the cluttered shelves.

Links

Vision Systems Design | May 6th, 2016
Click here to read an article feared on Vision Systems Design's website describing CapSen's vision software

MIT News | October 7th, 2013
View Jared's graduate work in 3D object detection.

Click here to see Jared's ping pong robot in action!