Before launching SVT Robotics, CEO A.K. Schultz and his co-founder and CTO Michael Howes were both working as executives for another company when they noticed a vital, unmet need in the robotics industry while observing an assembly line.
“The machines were actually installed fairly quickly, but it took much more time to integrate the software because they all had to be integrated using bespoke interfaces. That experience stuck with me,” Schultz recalled.
Schultz and Howes later created SVT Robotics in 2018 to provide a solution: rapid deployment of enterprise robot technology.
“When Mike and I founded SVT, we realized that everyone in the industry needed a thing no one was building: a way to quickly get all these technologies to talk to each other — across platforms and manufacturers. And with the SOFTBOT Platform, we have accomplished just that,” Schultz said.
Now, the Norfolk-based startup is garnering such widespread attention as a nationally renowned robotics software…
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