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Christoffer Jørgenvåg is the co-founder and CEO of Hive, which builds what it calls a silicon brain for industrial machines: a sensor kit and an AI model installed on the wheel loaders, excavators and forklifts a company already owns, so the operator moves from the cab to a control
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Sze Yuan Cheong and Elijah Ong are the co-founders of Devol Robots, which builds the AI that lets industrial robots handle contact: insertion, assembly, and the other jobs factories still do by hand. Sze, the CEO, started and ran factories for a decade before he touched a robot. Elijah,
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San Francisco, September 22, 2026 Aurora Feng asked the foundation model labs a question I had not thought to ask. What do you do with the data you collected on your last generation of hardware? The answer, more often than not, is nothing. They dump it, or they leave it
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'