Davis Foster
Founder of Agency Tool Company, Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
Company
Davis Foster is listed as a founder of Agency Tool Company. Agency Tool Company ships software to robots in the field 20x faster than a Docker pull with ATC Deploy, sending only the bytes that changed and resuming when the network drops. Deployment tooling is the connection between the lab & the field that continually bottlenecks robotics scaling and lacks a strong robotics-native solution. Deploy is live today with 3 launch partners across ag, construction, and logistics robotics. Our second product, ATC Build, offers embedded-compute as a CI service so devs can run tests and validate their software on the actual target hardware. Build supports the Nvidia Jetson lineup, Raspberry Pi, and a number of other embedded platform targets. Jack Morrison and Davis Foster founded and sold Scythe Robotics after deploying hundreds of autonomous mowers across the country; Agency Tool Company is building the robotics deployment platform across hardware and software they wish they had. Learn more at https://agencytool.com
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Robotics and Physical AI are hot again, but we’re still in the “1997 internet” era: every new entrant is playing on hard mode.
Robotics and Physical AI are hot again, but we’re still in the “1997 internet” era: every new entrant is playing on hard mode. At Scythe Robotics, we spent eight years going from idea to scaling nationwide robot deployments. We learned the hard way how much still has to be...
- LinkedIn
Accelerate Robotics Revolution with ATC Deploy | Davis Foster posted on the topic | LinkedIn
There has never been a better time to build robots. But it's still way too hard. Excited to launch Agency Tool Company and our first product, ATC Deploy, to accelerate the robotics revolution!
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Big news: we've raised $42M to accelerate deployments of our all-electric, fully-autonomous mower and begin chipping away at our 7500+ unit reservation backlog.
Big news: we've raised $42M to accelerate deployments of our all-electric, fully-autonomous mower and begin chipping away at our 7500+ unit reservation backlog. Lots of work ahead, 2023 is going to be a wild ride! https://t.co/B0LnyyqMAj
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Robotics will become the biggest industry of all time.
Robotics will become the biggest industry of all time. The last 3 years of progress have brought the timeline forward. But robotics cos are all still bottlenecked by the volume of hardened infrastructure and tooling they need to build from scratch We’re here to change that.
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Interesting point in history where the TL seems to have similar volumes of AI hype and AI cope.
Interesting point in history where the TL seems to have similar volumes of AI hype and AI cope. Difference is, the hype is at least directionally correct; the people betting on stagnation are going to get rolled.
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Big milestone: @ScytheRobotics has been acquired Autonomous Solutions, Inc (@asirobots).
Big milestone: @ScytheRobotics has been acquired Autonomous Solutions, Inc (@asirobots). What started 8 years ago as a crazy idea - commercial-grade autonomous & electric mowers for landscaping - is now operating daily across 30+ states, mowing billions of square feet of grass
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Too much doom and pessimism on the TL.
Too much doom and pessimism on the TL. Putting a prediction out there: its the first inning of the greatest economic boom of all time. Short-term growing pain << unimaginable productivity gains and wealth creation. AI + robotics + energy + biotech. Literal deus ex machina.