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These new balls have digital devices in them that track data points and work in conjunction with the digital first down system.

The chips are inside and monitored by Zebra Tech.

The chips are in shoulder pads, pylons, on officials, and can provide close to 200 data points in a single play.

Next gen stats give you those real time stats like separation, where quarterbacks, uh, release, how fast it arrives, even where the defense was.

what is from your perspective the position group that's been most impacted by the new layer of analysis that zebra has been able to provide the nfl via next gen stats

All right, welcome to another episode of Chalk Talk.

I'm Adam Petrus, director of sports and entertainment application at Zebra Technologies.

Today, we are joined by the one and only Cynthia Freeland, sports analyst at the NFL Network and global Zebra ambassador.

Now, Cynthia, it's great to have you back on Chalk Talk.

You know, for many of us, September brings a lot of excitement.

I am not a pumpkin spice latte lover, but I have found some of these new fall flavors.

I'm really into that.

But hey, let's see if we, I'll go to the other side and say, hey, let's see if we can't get a breakout here following this pullback.

okay we'll have to wait and see we think about identification data zebra technologies which is up over 50 percent this year so what stands out in the technicals to you

well i'm glad you bring that up uh 50 move this year great but really the the two-year chart we're going to look at is the reminder of our many opportunities to participate in new uptrends they occur initially with a break of a downtrend line that's that final oval at the bottom here working around the 50-day moving average.

When it crossed the 200 to the upside, there was a little bit of a heads up.

We added customers like Target and Yum! Brands, and we just made it more scale with recurring revenue that would attract more of a strategic buyer.

And last October, we sold the business to Zebra Technologies for $1.3 billion, and they could pay significantly more than any sponsor buyer.

Strategics are by far the favorite exit,

and with good reason given the nature of pulling off an IPO today, according to Ricardo from Primera.

So we don't have to be experts in all those different markets.

In 2025, tell me if I got that right, Clearview and Zebra Technologies announced a joint industrial automation center of excellence.

Who's that for? What actually happens there? And tell us how that came together.

Yeah, so I think in many ways what we've done with the headquarters here and everything in terms of our experience center, our training center, and everything that's linked in there with Zebra is on trend with where the market's going.

Obviously, I'm sure it's not all of the model can do, but it focuses a lot on tasks or they're showing tasks that are done in a home, for example.

making eggs, repotting a plant, I think flipping pancakes, making coffee, things of that nature, which I think we've seen all of these things be done before with various AI techniques, right? What I'm trying to figure out is skilled AI is the company that acquired the assets from Fetch Robotics when Zebra Technologies was offloading the Fetch Robotics business earlier this year, what was it, four or five months ago, something like that.

And I know for a fact, one of the issues with the Fetch robot over the years is the software and how I think difficult or not up to par it was.

So if Skilled is able to do all of this stuff in the home and certainly other industries with this new S1 model, I do wonder what are they doing on the mobile robot side of things, right? Is this foundation model some other foundation model that they're using or developing? Are they able to apply that to these fetch AMRs? Is that something that they even want to do at this point? Is there another reason it acquired everything from fetch robotics in Zebra? So I'm going to poke around and see what I can learn about that.

Hey, welcome to the Zebra Podcast.

I'm Wes Coleman, Industry Principal for warehousing at Zebra Technologies.

In our ISV series, we take a closer look at the real challenges facing the front line, and how Zebra and our ecosystem of independent software partners work together to solve those problems.

Today, we're joined by Damian Peterson from Havensight Consulting Group to talk about what SAP mobile looks like today, why it's holding back warehouse teams, and what Havensight and Zebra are doing about it.