After some quick musings on productivity, pronunciation, the meaning of life and work, and habits versus accomplishments, today marks the first of Movers and Shakers: companies of note based on arbitrary criteria set by us.

09m 22s Ground rules and Terry’s criteria for inclusion. The companies must be unique and solve an emerging problem.

10m 5s Regent - electric sea gliders

23m 49s Russ’s criteria for inclusion. Today’s keywords are “robots” and “developer tools”

24m 19s Sunflower Labs - autonomous security drone

26m 53s Ready Robotics - the Windows operating system of industrial robots

40m 6s Trumpf. Don’t forget the f. Metal forming and fabricating machine tool builder.

40m 57s Aquagga - breaking down forever chemicals