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Ep 112 | Why 99% Reliability Means Your Robotics Fleet Fails (w/ Joe Harris, CEO Alloy Robotics)

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Ep 111 | Customers Don't Want Cooking Robots, They Want Assembly (w/ Rajat Bhageria, Chef Robotics)

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Ep 110 | Your Factory Data Is Lying to You (w/ Silviu Homoceanu, CTO Almetra)

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Ep 109 | Inside Almond: The $8,999 Physical AI Robot (w/ Saba Khalilnaji)

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Ep 108 | AI Is Inventing Hardware Humans Can't Design (w/ Prof. Mario Krenn, Feyer)

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Ep 107 | "We Don't Retrain Models, We Teach Them Cause & Effect" (w/ Johannes Haux)

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Ep 106 | "There Is Zero ROI in Home Humanoids" (w/ Nic Radford)

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Ep 105 | Red Tape Cost Us a 5-Year Lead in Humanoid Robotics (w/ Jan Peters)

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Ep 104 | How to Train 99.9% Reliable Robots for $5 (w/ Igor Kulakov)

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Ep 103 | Why Robotics Hasn't Had Its ChatGPT Moment Yet (w/ Jiafei Duan)

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Ep 102 | Why Humanoids Won’t Be in Our Homes Anytime Soon (w/ Majid Khadiv)

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Ep 101 | Investing $19M in Humanoids with Zero Robotics Experience (w/ Andrew Kang, RoboStrategy)

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Ep 101 | Why I Bought a $25k Robot Arm for My New York Apartment (w/ Elliot Horowitz, Viam)

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Ep 100 | You Need To Be 10x Better (w/ Evan Beard)

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Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown)

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Ep 98 | Discipline Is a Transferable Skill (w/ Camilla Mazzoleni)

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Ep 97 | Why Robotics Keeps Rebuilding the Same Infrastructure (w/ Stephen James)

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Ep 96 | Talent Didn’t Save Me, Consistency Did (w/ Steve Xie)

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Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)

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Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber)

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Ep 93 | Scaling Is Harder Than Building The First Robot (w/ Stefan Dörr-Laukien)

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Ep 92 | New Opportunities Grow From Every Failure (w/ Stephan van den Brink)

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Ep 91 | The Real Truth Of Autonomy Lives In The Stats (w/ Harals Schäfer)

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Ep 89 | Business Masterclass: Selling First Before Building (w/ Albane Dersy)

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Ep 90 | Why are you not throwing yourself into this? (w/ Hendrik Susemihl)

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Ep 88 | Always a Bit of a Generalist, Never Only One Thing (w/ Jon Miller Schwartz)

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Ep 87 | Speed Is Objectively the Most Important Thing in Life (w/ Axel Peytavin)

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Ep 86 | It’s Not A Hardware Problem. It’s A System Problem (w/ Tom Zhang)

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Ep 85 | Having A Company Is Maybe The Hardest Way To Get Rich (w/ Maximilian Schilling)

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Ep 84 | Fundamental Improvement Over Incremental Change (w/ Xavier (Tianhao) Chi)

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Ep. 83 | You Become Who You Hang Out With (w/ Ashish Kapoor)

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Ep 82 | College Is Going to Be Obsolete by the End of This Decade (w/ Brian Walker)

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Ep 81 | Opportunities Only Arise After An Incredible Amount Of Work (w/ Jan Liphardt)

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Ep 80 | You Will Die If You Don’t Do It (w/ Bob van Luijt)

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Ep 79 | Calm Down, Slow It All Down, Let Clarity Emerge (w/ Vikash Kumar)

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Ep 78 | Don't Start With A Whiteboard, Talk To Customers (w/Brennand Pierce)

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Ep 77 | If Other People Can Do It, Why Not Us? (w/ Aaron Tan)

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Ep 76 | Fear and Pressure Fade When Joy Takes Over (w/ Brendah Njiru)

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Ep 75 | We Should Scale It Up Ourselves (w/ Lerrel Pinto)

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Ep 74 | Why Early Corporate Experience Is Valuable for Entrepreneurs (w/ Benji Barash)

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Ep 73 | Learn It Yourself Before Hiring for Expertise (w/ Madison Maxey)

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Ep 72 | Found the perfect track, combining science and design (w/ Matthieu Lapeyre)

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Ep 71 | The Team Ends Up Like Charting the Path Too (w/ Kaan Dogrusoz)

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Ep 70 | Real Confidence Comes From The Work (w/ Benjamin Bolte)

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Ep 69 | You can really build things with a small team (w/ Nikolaus West)

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Ep 68: Personal Agency and Shaping One's Own Life (w/Chang Liu)

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Ep 67: Doing Plan A to Do B Doesn’t Work (w/ Dhanush Radhakrishnan)

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Ep 66 | Ship One New Product Every Week Until Something Sticks (w/ Tibo Louis-Lucas)

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Ep 65 | The Failing Part is Not Very Valuable if You Don't Learn (w/ Victor Splittgerber)

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Ep 64 | Degrees and Job Doesn't Matter - What Matters Is Being True (w/ Haixuan Xavier Tao)

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Ep 63 | At the Start, Fundamental Knowledge Matters Most (w/ Dmitrii Rudnitckii)

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Ep 62 | Physical AI Has a Data Problem (w/ Pedro Milcent)

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Ep 61 | Bad feedback is the most important feedback (w/ Nicolas Rabault)

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Ep 60 | Once You Know What You Want to Do, Life Gets Easier (w/ Eris Sako)

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Ep 59 | Most Important Thing: The Ability To Get Shit Done (w/ Etienne Lacroix)

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Ep 58 | Find the Right Co-Founder... It’s Everything (w/ Sandor Felber)

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Ep 57 | A True Master Is An Eternal Student (w/ Ryan Saavedra)

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Ep 56 | You Should Know Why You’re Doing It (w/ Antoine Van Malleghem)

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Ep 55 | Just keep on building and you’ll figure out what you want. (w/ Frédéric Legrand)

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Ep 54 | Work hard, make it fail less and get better (w/ Sankaet Pathak)

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Ep 53 | Make Bionic Limbs Accessible To Humans & Robots (w/Aadeel Akhtar)

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Ep 52 | Building Autonomous Household Robots (w/ Usman Roshan)

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Ep 51 | Don't Found a Startup Without Decade-Long Passion (w/ Adrian Macneil)

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Ep 50 | Resilience Is Born From Struggle and Grit (w/Nikolai Ensslen)

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Ep 49 | Build Great Tech & Also Lay Foundations for What's Next (w/ Sanjeev Sharma)

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Ep 48 | Go To The Shop Floor & Talk To More People (w/ Fotis Dimeas)

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Ep 47 | Co-Elevation & Healthy Challenging (w/ Robert MacKenzie)

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Ep 46 | Success is a Team Effort (w/ Christian Piechnick)

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Ep 45 | The Value of Fixing and Building (w/ Miika Satori)

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Ep 44 | Bringing Robots Into Your Home (w/ Mehul Nariyawala)

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Ep 43 | From Curiosity to Creation (w/ Kelsey Pool)

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Ep 42 | When to Pivot, Make Bold Decisions & Take Action (w/ Brandon King)

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Ep 41 | From Research to Robotics Industry (w/ Christian Löchte)

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Ep 40 | Revolutionizing Sensors for Robotics (w/ Klajd Lika)

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Ep 39| Power of Perseverance (w/ Rutav Shah)

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Ep 38 | Focusing on One Problem at a Time (w/ Nima Gard)

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Ep 37 | The Future of Open-Source Robotics (w/ Petar Crnjak)

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Ep 36 | Robotics Software Engineering & ROS (w/ ⁠Aryan Jagushte)

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Ep 35 | Humanoids to be part of people’s everyday life (w/Haoru Xue)

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Ep 34 | Focus on the problems (w/ Klas Nilsson)

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Ep 33 | Why Perseverance is Key (w/ Vladimir Baranov)

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Ep 32 | Enjoy Years of Hard Work (w/ Jacopo Tani)

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Ep 31 | AI, AR, AV and Robots (w/ Robert Scoble)

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Ep 30 | Philosophy, AI and Robots (w/ Ronnie Vuine)

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Ep 29 | Starting Le Robot @ Hugging Face (w/ Remi Cadene)

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Ep 28 | Hands-On Learning: Building Over Books (w/ Ali Ahmed)

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Ep 27 | Life Is Not A Race (w/ Mathias Mantelli)

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Ep 26 | ROS, R&D in Robotics (w/ Shubham Nadi)

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Ep 25 | Cars, Wood and AI Robots (w/ Abhinav Das)

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Ep 24 | Embodied AGI: Less Than $10,000 (w/ Matt Freed)

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Ep 23 | AR, Drones and Humanoids (w/ Lingkang Zhang)

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Ep 22 | 3D/XR Rech & Robotics (w/ Dr. Eike Schäffer)

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Ep 21 | No-Code Robotics (w/ Daryl Lim)

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Ep 20 | AI-Powered Entrepreneurship (w/ Alex Enache)

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Ep 19 | How to Become a Self-Taught Robotics Software Engineer (w/ Chandandeep Singh)

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Ep 18 | Bridging Robotics and Cultures (w/ Robert Liebhart)

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Ep 17 | Technical Sales With Heart (w/ Robert Vogel)

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Ep 16 | How to Get AI into Manufacturing (w/ Aymeric de Pontbriand)

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Ep 15 | How to Bootstrap a Humanoid Robotics Startup (w/ Ian Pritchard)

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Ep 14 | Open-Source Humanoids (w/ Rob Knight & Trent Shumay)