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Automate It: A Robotics Podcast — 66 episodes

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Ep 66 - Pulsar Localization & Digit's Digits

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Ep 65 - Why Don’t Robots Have an Off Switch?

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Ep 64 – We're Back, the HOA Called, and Claude Code Changed Everything
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Ep 63 – Robots, Cells, and the FDA with Fred Parietti of Multiply Labs

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Ep 62 – The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in Enterprise Robotics

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Ep 61 - The Three Laws of Robotics

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Ep 60 - Does Nobody Care About Driver-Out Anymore?
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Ep 59 - David LaRose from Carnegie Robotics on the Reality of Robotics
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Ep 58 - Why is Hardware So Expensive?
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Ep 57 - Vertical vs Horizontal Integration in Tech
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Ep 56 - The Pitfalls of Traditional Collision Avoidance Systems

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Ep 55 - Adrian from Foxglove on the State of Robotics Today

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Ep 54 - What Makes a Robot "Safe Enough"?

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Ep 53 - Takeaways from CES 2025

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Ep 52 - The Demise of Cruise (& What it Means for Your Autonomy Program)
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Ep 51 - Hype vs Reasonable Robots

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Ep 50 - Beneath the Surface: Robots Under Water

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Ep 49 - Big Robots at MINEXPO and Tesla's Robot "Demo"

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Ep 48 - What's Hard About AMRs

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Ep 47 - Robots for the Military

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Ep 46 - How Do You Regulate Robots?

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Ep 45 - Why Doesn't Starlink Solve All the Problems?

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Ep 44 - Ahoy, Matey! There Be Robots on this Ship

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Ep 43 - The Tradeoffs of Vertical Robotics Companies

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Ep 42 - That Radar is So Hot Right Now

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Ep 41 - The Dirt on Dirt

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Ep 40 - Ed Niedermeyer Talks Tesla

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Ep 39 - The Reluctant AI Episode

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Ep 38 - Why People Took our April Fools Joke Seriously

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Ep 37 - Why Robots are "Default Blocked"

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Ep 36 - Questions VCs Ask Us

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Ep 35 - Is Tech "Over" Autonomy?

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Ep 34 - The State of VC in Robotics

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Ep 33 - No GPS? No Problem

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Ep 32 - Is It Possible to Have Sensor Overkill?

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Ep 31 - Let's Play with the Astro Robot

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Ep 30 - Is Robotics Data the New Oil?

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Ep 29 - Is Autonomy a Product?

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Ep 28 - Why Are Small Robots So Hard?

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Ep 27 - No Code Lasts Forever

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Ep 26 - Academic vs Commercial Approaches in Robotics

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Ep 25 - Waymo Trucking Shuts Down

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Ep 24 - Deep Diving on the OceanGate Submarine

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Ep 23 - Is Robotics Really THAT Much Harder than SaaS?
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Ep 22 - Is a VR Headset a Robot?
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Ep 21 - Onroad Autonomy Woes (&Does it Matter?)
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Ep 20 - Nerf Guns Explain Why Robots are Hard
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Ep 19 - Request for Robots
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Ep 18 - The Top Contributions Open Source Robotics Needs Now (Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2)
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Ep 17 - How Do the Current Economic Conditions Impact Robotics?
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Ep 16 - Roombas & VCs - The Battle for Clean Floors and Funding
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Ep 15 - Construction Robots at CONEXPO
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Ep 14 - The Downsides of Consultants Building your Robots
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Ep 13 - The Shutdown of Everyday Robots (& Why Big Companies aren't Safer for Robotics)
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Ep 12 - Robotics Demos Gone Wrong
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Ep 11 - How to Choose the Right Sensors
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Ep 10 - Is Teach-and-Repeat Really Autonomy?
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Ep 9 - Why MVPs in Robotics are Different than SaaS
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Ep 8 - CES & the State of Autonomy
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Ep 7 - Did Google Just Buy ROS?
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Ep 6 - How to Measure Robots
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Ep 5 - Is the Autonomy Industry Dead?
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Ep 4 - How to Kill an Autonomy Project
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Ep 3 - Teleoperation and art
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Ep 2 - The Time Ilia Danced with a Robot
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Ep 1 - Welcome to Automate It

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