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What founders say about robotics

Robotics founders and operators come on the show to talk about what's actually hard about building physical machines that work in the real world, not the pitch-deck version. These passages are their own words on the engineering and the deployment, quoted straight from the transcripts.

11 passages from 9 conversations, drawn from 509 conversations and 7,432,473 words in the full archive

• “I should say it doesn't look like C-3PO, but like this is the kind of robot that like this is embodied AI in the market today. It doesn't need to look like us for it to be embodied AI, but for us for it to be embodied AI, but this is a real company making real dollars for real businesses that is bringing AI out of the computer screen. So, um Botrista, check these guys out.”

  Shane Wilson·How A Football Star Conquered Frontier Tech — The Unexpected Leap·at 37:36

• “That's kind of the beachhead at this point. You know, eventually we'll see robotics coming into the home uh with different forms. I mean, technically you could say we see that right now with vacuum robotics and other forms of robotics, but uh truly see a humanoid or a physical robot that's engaging with, you know, humans on a daily basis or with children and teaching them a language or some sort of education aspect of things.”

  Shahab·Inside Humanoid Global: Building the Future of AI and Robotics·at 9:53

• “Now other thing in terms of the what would be the adverse effect of edge AI would be is that you could have again the very rogue robots and humanoid robots or something like that. They could become chaotic on their own and create their own world too. I'm saying this. is just a speculation, right?”

  Deepak Srivastava·Watching Fruit Flies he decided to Redesign AI for AI-2.0 · Deepak Srivastava, NuMorph.·at 50:41

• “There are many new players raising significant capital. But like any new industry, some of those will eventually hit a wall or fizzle out. So, you kind of have to pick and choose your battle in respect to um the the new robotics company, you know, whether it's a single-arm robotics or a human robot or whichever um and see kind of what it exactly is the product they're building for, why they're building it.”

  Shahab·Inside Humanoid Global: Building the Future of AI and Robotics·at 14:39

• “They care about um getting their money. And then they're like, "Oh, we're going to spend this on partying. We're going to send spend this on buying AI bots, like literal humanoid robots."”

  Maher·The NYU Dropout Who Decided to Kill the Resume·at 14:02

• “We don't foresee that happening to be the case in every pilot or everywhere we are. And ultimately the goal is that there be no human teleoperation, right? That's the goal of all robotics. Um you know, you'd have maybe one human for every uh hundreds of robots that you could tap into if there's a failure.”

  Maxim Zavet·Nobody Is Ever Going to Buy a Robot·at 19:43

• “Robotics, we we bring the skeleton into Isaac Sim, and then we add actuators and physics and and real movement to it. And you can actually simulate a complete robot in Isaac Sim.”

  Brent Auster·Before the Companion Robot, He Built a Bartender·at 6:23

• “Is that an aerospace company or is it an energy company? Um so there's things like that but so I think of energy as sort of a hybrid between vertical and horizontal. You know, a lot of these robots are B2B robots that I would invest in that are, you know, they're operating in a bio wet lab to validate data for a machine learning model for a biotech company or they're welding uh airplanes together for the aerospace sector. So, it's like it's robotics investment but robotics for the vertical of aerospace, right?”

  Daniel Gold·Why AI Apps Fail — Deep Tech Needs Wide IP Moats·at 30:51

• “I guess what you'd call physical AI. I've always thought that was fascinating. Um Um and I think that because of where we are in the development of AI and robotics and like, we're really on the cusp of this happening.”

  John Frankel·John Frankel Explains Why AI Will Spur More Jobs, Not Fewer·at 39:53

• “They have a nice little like wind tunnel area. So you didn't really ask about drones but drones is there and then also robots are there. So I think that's an interesting place that's not as well known now but it's being really revamped.”

  Bryce·How He Made 846% in One Year — Then Quit Trading Forever·at 26:51

• “It was a robot arm being used to help move luggage in the back of an airport. Now, this is something that like, hey, we could imagine like a fully automated back back office for an airport can move things faster. We can help people avoid injuries.”

  Shane Wilson·How A Football Star Conquered Frontier Tech — The Unexpected Leap·at 21:51