We are excited to announce the launch of Click Connect Drive: A Phantom Auto Podcast, our new video and audio podcast channel now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. In our first episode, Introducing Teleoperation for Industrial Vehicles, host Tyler Kern talked with Jordan Sanders, Vice President of Business and Marketing for Phantom Auto. The duo discussed how teleoperation is powering industrial vehicles in material handling environments to increase safety, productivity, and labor accessibility. Phantom Auto provides remote operation software for all types of vehicles. Their software allows humans sitting 10, 20, 100, or even 1,000 miles away to drive a vehicle. Think drone pilots, but for vehicles. Currently, Phantom works with a variety of clients and can remotely operate a variety of vehicles. The current list includes forklifts, yard trucks, robots, taxis, and other passenger vehicles. “Across all those applications, what our software really delivers for customers is transforming and virtualizing their operations,” Sanders said. With the advent of autonomy in consumer and industrial environments, the technology and resources needed to enable remote operation of vehicles are now widely available. With the reduced cost of hardware such as sensors and semiconductors, teleoperation has become a cost-effective option for the industry. Another major driver for the adoption of teleoperation has been the current labor shortage, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic which has disrupted supply chains and has highlighted the need for increased operational resilience. “Those two major trends are driving the adoption of our technology,” Sanders said. You can listen to the entire episode on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-teleoperation-for-industrial-vehicles/id1578944202?i=1000530434852) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/14yx2vtxr14sTBu28atAIq?si=cIo7tR02R-SnKyVCGSgElw&dl_branch=1) or watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/asCf6FPssn4).