James Davidson

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Teradyne

Search every verified James Davidson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. James Davidson, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer for South Asia at Teradyne Robotics, spoke at ElevateX 2026 on February 12, 2026. He discussed the company's AI platform, which he said is focused on reducing engineering effort and accelerating time to market for production. Davidson described the platform as including hardware such as an RGB camera and industrial enclosure, as well as software including a new version of Polybook called Polybook X. He stated that the platform covers applications including visual inspection, vision guided robots, and imitation learning, which he described as a method for demonstrating tasks rather than programming them.