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Blue Ocean Robotics’ CEO Claus Risager Discusses Robotic Disinfection Systems, Zebra Technologies Acquires Fetch Robotics, and More

In Episode 47 of The Robot Report Podcast, Blue Ocean Robotics CEO Claus Risager discusses the company’s early entry into disinfection robots before COVID-19 struck. Also, the future of Fetch Robotics after the Zebra Technologies acquisition, Aurora’s SPAC play, Abundant Robotics’ shutdown, and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

Blue Ocean Robotics’ CEO Claus Risager Discusses Robotic Disinfection Systems, Zebra Technologies Acquires Fetch Robotics, and More

By RBR Staff | July 22, 2021


Welcome to Episode 47 of The Robot Report Podcast, where each week Robot Report editor Steve Crowe and Mobile Robot Guide editor Mike Oitzman review the latest robotics, automation and intelligent systems news and announcements, and interview leading roboticists, leaders of innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community.

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In Episode 47 of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman share the microphone with Claus Risager, the CEO and Co-founder of Blue Ocean Robotics. They discussed the evolution of the Danish company, the strength of Denmark’s robotics cluster, and the company’s early entry into disinfection robots before the COVID-19 pandemic (Blue Ocean won a 2020 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for its disinfection solution). Risager also describes the benefits of telepresence robots.

Crowe and Oitzman also discuss a few of the bigger stories in the robotics industry of late, including the future of Fetch Robotics after the Zebra Technologies acquisition, Aurora taking its self-driving tech public via SPAC, the shutdown of Abundant Robotics and the Ingenuity Helicopter completing another historic flight on Mars.



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