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Ed Mullen, VP of gross sales for the Americas at Cell Industrial Robots (MiR), has resigned. Mullen is becoming a member of Dexterity, a Calif.-based startup that emerged from stealth in 2020 and just lately raised $140 million in Sequence B funding. It’s unclear in the mean time what function Mullen is taking at Dexterity.

MiR, a number one developer of autonomous cell robots (AMRs), earned $64 million in income in 2021. It offered practically 300 AMRs in December 2021 alone, setting an organization report for many items offered in a single month. It’s unclear how a lot of MiR’s income got here from the Americas.

The Robotic Report reached out to Mullen for remark, however has not heard again. This story will likely be up to date once we be taught extra info. 

Mullen joined MiR in 2016 and, in accordance with his LinkedIn profile, was the primary worker of MiR Americas. Mullen applied a distribution community and authorized techniques integrator channel. Whereas it’s unclear how a lot the Americas contributed to MiR’s income in 2021, Mullen mentioned in his LinkedIn profile the division grew to greater than $27 million in gross sales in his 5 years with the corporate.

MiR relies in Denmark and was based in 2013. It was acquired by Teradyne in 2018 for $272 million. Teradyne additionally owns AutoGuide Cell Robots, Energid, and Common Robots.

“Ed Mullen has finished a incredible job constructing a big distributor community and MiR’s enterprise in North America over the previous 6 years,” mentioned Greg Smith, president of Teradyne’s industrial automation group. “Ed’s workforce drove practically 40% development in 2021.  We’re sorry to see him go, however he has a possibility with an early-stage software program firm that was too good for him to cross up.  We want him all the perfect along with his new enterprise.”

Ed Mullen

Previous to becoming a member of MiR, Mullen was VP of gross sales and advertising and marketing for Simplimatic Automation for one 12 months. Earlier than that, he was the nationwide gross sales supervisor at Common Robots USA, the world’s main developer of collaborative robotic arms, for practically three years.

Dexterity develops hardware-agnostic robotic techniques that permit logistics prospects to automate pick-pack duties and may deal with advanced manipulations in unpredictable environments. Its robots can be utilized in kitting, achievement, palletizing and depalletizing and singulation functions. The corporate was based in 2017, and its Sequence B spherical valued the corporate at $1.4 billion.

Dexterity’s robots use synthetic intelligence, superior management idea, laptop imaginative and prescient, and the sense of contact to adapt rapidly, making them secure to work alongside people. Dexterity additionally designs its techniques in order that the robots can transfer on rails, pack gadgets, and collaborate with different robots and people.

On the time of the Sequence B funding, Dexterity mentioned its techniques dealt with 50,000-plus SKUs and carried out greater than 14 million picks for purchasers, which embody two of the 4 largest parcel carriers. The SKUs the robots have dealt with embody loosely packed, deformable polybags, hot-dog buns, floppy tortillas, cardboard packing containers, baggage of earthworms, and trays and crates of client meals.

Dexterity’s founder and CEO Samir Menon appeared on The Robotic Report Podcast in November 2021. You’ll be able to hearken to the interview beneath.