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Why Pixel-Based Robot AI Is an Expensive Detour | Chao Cao, Sancho

Chao Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Sancho, which builds the intelligence layer that lets general-purpose robots connect the machines in advanced manufacturing. He led the autonomy team for CMU's DARPA Subterranean Challenge entries, spent a year and a half at the Boston Dynamics AI

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The Missing Data Layer for Physical AI | James Kujareevanich, Vision Lab

James Kujareevanich is the co-founder and CEO of Vision Lab, a company building the data infrastructure for physical AI - going into factories around the world, capturing first-person video of real operators performing real tasks, and turning that into structured training data for frontier labs and robotics companies. They

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Building the Foundry for Physical AI | Mike Xia, Anvil Robotics

Mike Xia is the co-founder and CEO of Anvil Robotics, a company building what they call the foundry for physical AI. They make the hardware, software, and data tools that let robotics teams go from zero to model training in days instead of months. They've shipped over

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Useful Now: The Case for Application-Specific Robots | Arjun Subramaniam, Factory Intelligence

Arjun Subramaniam is the Founder and CEO of Factory Intelligence, a physical AI company training tactile foundation models for the real world. He's personally toured more than 70 factories deploying robots, and his co-founder Mike Strope spent 15 years in packaging, including a president seat at a

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Why the World's Most Advanced Factories Are Still Flying Blind | Jared O'Leary, SirenOpt

Jared O'Leary is the CEO and co-founder of SirenOpt, a deep tech company building the manufacturing intelligence layer for advanced materials production. Their technology came out of a decade of plasma physics research at UC Berkeley - and they're already deployed at Tier-1 manufacturers across

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Why Heavy Industrial Work Demands a Different Kind of Robot | Gary Chen & Conley Oster of Raise Robotics

Gary Chen and Conley Oster of Raise Robotics have deployed robots on construction sites, in steel fabrication facilities, and in shipyards. Their view on humanoids is more nuanced - and more grounded - than the narrative driving most of the capital right now. Listen to the episode here: Summary: There is a

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How AI Models for Robotics Are Really Built, Deployed, and Sold | Dr. Asad Tirmizi, Trener Robotics

Dr. Asad Tirmizi, Co-Founder and CEO of Trener Robotics, breaks down the full lifecycle of AI in industrial robotics. Listen to the episode here: We cover how models are actually built - the training pipelines, the data, and what separates people who've done it from people who'