My name is Kiva Allgood and I am the President and CEO of Sarcos.
The mission and vision for Sarcos is simple.
We're here to prevent injury and save lives.
What makes the Sarcos and Palantir relationship so unique is the fact that we're really pushing that technology curve.
It's the advancement that we're making in AI, machine learning and cloud compute,
and it's their toolset that allows us to be able to run those models and really understand what's happening with the robot real time.
Sarcos has two different platforms.
We have what's called XT upper extremity robotic platform that's very anthropomorphic in terms of motion and dexterity, similar to humans.
And then we have exoskeleton, which is a full body exoskeleton powered.
So you can imagine if you use exoskeleton, you can lift 150-200 pounds and feel like you're lifting 10-15 pounds.
The Guardian XT is the upper extremity robot with two arms and a torso.
The two arms are kind of anthropomorphic to human arms and can be operated in teleoperation mode, or from the ground or from a distance. Traditionally, robotics is associated with a factory line in which they kind of repeat the same task over and over, but that's only one task.
In our case, we can actually do all of those tasks with a single robot, without necessary reprograming.
Right now, the core focus is helping Sarcos on their road to commercialization.
Using Apollo, Sarcos can manage their fleet of robots at scale to be able to deploy software and updates across their fleet within moments.
The second thing is Foundry Edge potentially enabling Sarcos to not only collect the data off the robots,
but do it in a way that is cost effective, such that not everything has to be sent to the cloud,
potentially saving them terabytes of information that is probably low signal
and eventually getting the right information to the right analysts or operator.
Last one is where Palantir potentially can serve as their infrastructure to deploy artificial intelligence on the robots
and to be able to allow, or enable, their engineers to iterate quickly on the algorithms that really make the Sarcos robots unique.
Foundry can contribute on many levels at Sarcos.
Anything that interfaces with the cloud or passes data to Foundry
has a potential to be used as a tool to analyze the data, to project time series, to understand what's happening on the robots over time.
And ideally, we would like to use it in kind of forensic mode, which means collect the data, pass the data to Foundry
and then do the forensic analysis to figure out what went wrong.
Something like microservices, we haven't been there before,
but that has a huge potential to allow us to update software firmware remotely,
which is a big capability because we don't need to send the technicians to the field to do the updates.
Computing at the edge is another component of this
because we can actually have the models stored in Foundry and then pushed back into the edge devices
with the capability to adapt to new situations, new tasks. That doesn't require connectivity.
Core capabilities from Foundry, like branching, versioning, provenance are essentially helping accelerate the product roadmap development
and helping their engineers to iterate on the algorithms that are eventually going to be deployed on the robots in the field.
We want to help support Sarcos launch their Robot as a Service (RaaS) across various industries and to as many customers as possible.
Not only from the product development side, helping their product teams to deliver against their product roadmap faster,
but also for the business and the business development side.
We'll be able to take their compute capability and our robotic compute
capability and really deliver a unique solution every single time we come to a different place.
Whether it's a satellite, or whether it's a submarine, or whether it's a robot, we want to help companies like Sarcos
on their road to building semi-autonomous or autonomous technology,
because that's the future of Industry 4.0.