RoboTire CEO Victor Darolfi on automating tire changing

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Welcome to Episode 94 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies and other key members of the robotics community.

This week, we speak with the CEO and founder of RoboTire, Victor Darolfi, about automating the tire-changing procedure in your neighborhood auto repair shop with robots.
It is a dirty, back-breaking task that appears simple to automate, but Victor walks us through the difficulties of automating using vision and robots.

The podcast also discusses the top stories of the week, including the recent ABB rebranding of the recently acquired ASTI mobile robotics division.

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