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"text": "In this episode, we speak to our global lead of smart cities and a co\u002Dfounder of a robotics company about innovation in workplace efficiency"
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Co-hosts Dave Roberts and Mike Arsenault speak with Rick Huijbregts, our global lead for smart cities, and Yahya Saad, the co-founder and chief development officer for GlobalDWS, a technology company based in Toronto, Ontario. They discuss workplace robotics technology and the potential applications for creating more efficient and high-performance workspaces.
They also talk about where robots in the workplace could go in the future.
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