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Midflight.fm
by Charles A. · AI narration
Founder stories from the frontier of robots, drones, aircraft and deep tech, told while their bets are still in the air. midflightfm.substack.com
Episodes
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Sunday: The Robot Trained by Gloves
Two Stanford robotics students build some of the cheapest serious robots in the field, then find a way to teach robots without using robots at all. In 2024 they put those ideas together, design a glove before they design a body, and send it into hundreds of homes. This is the story of Sunday and...
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Archer: The Race to Fly Over Traffic
Two founders who started out in finance and hiring sell their recruiting startup, then set out to build an aircraft. They go public through a blank-check merger, get sued by a Boeing-backed rival, lose a co-founder to robotics, and promise passenger flights by 2025. This is the story of Archer...
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Midflight: Season 1 Trailer
Some companies have already won. Midflight is about the ones still in the air: companies building real machines in the physical world, where the outcome isn’t decided yet. Each episode asks the hard question a skeptic would ask, gives the company its best answer, and follows the founder and the...
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Figure AI: One Founder's Gamble on Asimov's Robots
In 2022, in Sunnyvale, California, Brett Adcock, a farm kid from central Illinois who grew up reading Asimov, put his own money into a company his own plan said had extremely low chances of success: a general-purpose humanoid robot. He had already sold one company and taken another public. This...
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Zipline: One Climber's Bet on Delivery From the Sky
In 2014, in California, a former pro climber named Keller Rinaudo Cliffton started building the half of a system nobody else would. In Tanzania, he had seen health workers text for urgent medicine that never came. He called it a database of death. By his account, experts told him drone delivery…
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1X Technologies: One Man's Dream of Robots in Our Homes
In 2014, in Moss, a small town south of Oslo, Bernt Børnich started building a robot that didn’t exist yet: a humanoid safe enough to share a home with a family. Nobody made the parts he needed, so 1X built them itself. It took a decade, a detour selling security robots, and a bet from OpenAI...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Founder stories from the frontier of robots, drones, aircraft and deep tech, told while their bets are still in the air.
midflightfm.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Charles A. · AI narration
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Founder stories from the frontier of robots, drones, aircraft and deep tech, told while their bets are still in the air. midflightfm.substack.com
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