New Zealand's Global Robotics Specialist: Boeing, Coca-Cola and a $530m Target - CEO of Scott Technology Mike Christman

Most people think of AI as an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. Not a robot refuelling a haul truck in the middle of a mine site, or a fleet of driverless vehicles moving stock around a warehouse floor.Scott Technology is a New Zealand automation and robotics company working across mining, meat processing, materials handling and appliances, counting Boeing, Microsoft and Coca-Cola among its customers.CEO Mike Christman joins Joseph Shuker on the Opening Bell podcast to talk about the plan to roughly double revenue to $530 million by 2030, why he wants the company forging the market rather than following it, where AI is already doing real work on a factory floor, and the biggest misconception about what Scott Technology actually is.

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