Designing Robots is hard. Building them shouldn't be. This is the topic of our podcast today.

My guest today for the podcast is Matt Wicks. Matt has more than 25 years of experience in the robotics industry with expertise in the areas of logistics systems, motion and industrial controls and software integration for large scale manufacturing and distribution systems. He has extensive experience in the field of advanced robotic solution development, including robotic solution integration and design. Matt is a thought leader in the robotics industry, holds numerous robotics patents and is a featured speaker at various robotics industry events. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla (Missouri S&T) and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Missouri. He currently serves on the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) Board of Directors and as the Chairman of the Robotics Industry Association (RIA) Board of Directors.

Matt's job is to engage and attract robot companies to have Celestica build their robots for them on an outsourced basis. If you haven't heard about Toronto based Celestica, Celestica enables the world's leading brands. Through their customer-centric approach, they partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their customers most complex challenges. Celestica is a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With teams across North America, Europe and Asia, they imagine, develop and deliver a better future with their customers. Celestica is a publicly traded company on NYSE: CLS and on TSE: CLS in Toronto. Celestica has approximately 28,000 employees and is controlled by Onex Corporation.

In the podcast, we talk about the use cases, electronic documentation, supply chain, driving costs out of robotics and why robots are so difficult to manufacture at production level scale. We talk about when companies need to outsource their robot builds and also talk about the startup community.

If you are building a robot and would like to get in touch with Matt, you can find him https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrwicks/ you would like to find out more about the company, Celestica, https://www.linkedin.com/company/celestica/

Thanks to our Matt, and his Toronto based marketing team at Celestica HQ: Crystal Wong, Nicki Lakhani, Sandra Moretti, our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot (dot com) and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems.

Enjoy the podcast!

Jim / Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

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Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision