Episode 162 | Supervised Autonomy: Increasing Efficiency in a Labor Light Economy

Vinay Shet, Co-Founder & CEO Teleo joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss Teleo’s approach to supervised autonomy in a labor light economy.

The conversation begins with Vinay discussing how Teleo is approaching supervised autonomy and it’s benefits.

By switching between tele-operations and autonomy and switching between machine one, machine two and even machine three, [operators] are able to control multiple machines at the same time. – Vinay Shet

Teleo’s approach to autonomy allows trained machine operators to increase their daily production while improving the overall operational efficiency of the job. This approach to autonomy developed to create value for construction companies that are facing a growing labor shortage. 

Labor is the number one problem that our customers flag to us for themselves. They are simply unable to find enough people to do the work that they have signed up to do. Across the board they have more work to do then they have people available. To the point where our customers tell us that they literary park their machines, because they are unable to find people to operate the machines. – Vinay Shet

Facing a growing labor shortage, Tomahawk Construction is deploying Teleo-enabled semi-autonomous trucks to move dirt at a residential community job site in Naples, Florida. This repetitive task is now automated, enabling Tomahawk to develop the residential community with great efficiency. As the community development scales, Teleo-enabled semi-autonomous trucks at the job site will eventually scale up to twelve trucks.

To scale the business, Teleo is utilizing a dealer network to sell their retrofit kits and have them installed on large machines. As the labor shortage grows and the Bank of America coined labor-light economy begins to take shape, Teleo is poised to prosper as their technology can help to fill the labor gap. 

Autonomy augments people. I think it’s really about making people more productive and making their lives more comfortable. – Vinay Shet

Wrapping up the conversation, Vinay shares his vision for the future of autonomy. 

Recorded on Friday, October 13, 2023

Chapters:

0:00 The Road to Autonomy Index

0:56 Introduction

1:22 Teleo's Approach to Autonomy

4:06 Remote Operations

7:17 Construction Industry Use Cases

11:02 Labor Light Economy

13:22 Teleo Business Model

18:34 How Teleo's Construction and Mining Compliment Each Other

20:40 Multi-Site Deployment

24:48 Future of Teleo

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