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Ep 98 | Discipline Is a Transferable Skill (w/ Camilla Mazzoleni)
Camilla Mazzoleni is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of FORGIS, a Zurich-based startup building an AI operating layer for industrial…
Feb 4
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January 2026
Ep 97 | Why Robotics Keeps Rebuilding the Same Infrastructure (w/ Stephen James)
Stephen James is the founder and CEO of Neuracore, and Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London:
Jan 29
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Ep 96 | Talent Didn’t Save Me, Consistency Did (w/ Steve Xie)
Steve Xie is the founder and CEO of Lightwheel AI, building the simulation and synthetic data layer powering the next generation of embodied AI and…
Jan 22
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Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)
I talk with Animesh Garg,Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech and one of the leading voices in robot learning today:
Jan 14
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Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber)
In this episode, I talk with Prof.
Jan 8
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December 2025
Ep 93 | Scaling Is Harder Than Building The First Robot (w/ Stefan Dörr-Laukien)
Stefan Dörr-Laukien is the co-founder and CEO of NODE Robotics, a Stuttgart-based company building the software layer behind scalable mobile robot…
Dec 18, 2025
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Investor Q&A: Robotics & AI Startups (Pre-Seed to Series A)
[Best-Practice Answers]
Dec 16, 2025
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Where to Post Your Robotics or AI Startup
[Channels and Copy-Paste Posts]
Dec 16, 2025
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5 Cold DMs That Led to Funding
[Breakdowns and Why They Worked]
Dec 16, 2025
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The Product and IP Strategy of Formic's Robotics-as-a-Service Model.
Formic Technologies has emerged as a transformative force in American manufacturing, achieving 300,000+ production hours and 300% growth in 2024 through…
Dec 16, 2025
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From 10 Robots to 1,000: The Manufacturing and Deployment Playbook Used by Locus Robotics to Scale.
Locus Robotics transformed from a desperate startup response to Amazon’s market consolidation into a $2 billion unicorn that fundamentally redefined…
Dec 16, 2025
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Hugging Face: Building the Future Through Remote-First Deep Tech and Open Source Community Strategy
Hugging Face has transformed from a teenage chatbot startup into a $4.5 billion AI infrastructure company by masterfully combining remote-first…
Dec 16, 2025
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