Kinematic Conversations Podcast
1) Ep 92 | New Opportunities Grow From Every Failure (w/ Stephan van den Brink)
I talked with Stephan van den Brink, founder and CEO of MANUS™, the company behind some of the most advanced data gloves used in robotics:Not only robotics: teleoperation, motion capture, and embodied...Show More
2) Ep 91 | The Real Truth Of Autonomy Lives In The Stats (w/ Harals Schäfer)
In this episode, I talk with Harald Schäfer, CTO at comma.ai, where he is leading one of the most interesting autonomy efforts in the world:They work on end to end driving and generative world models ...Show More
3) Ep 89 | Business Masterclass: Selling First Before Building (w/ Albane Dersy)
Albane Dersy turned down Goldman Sachs to build Inbolt, a robotics company now deployed in factories across the world. Her story is a masterclass in execution:In this episode, we talk about how Albane...Show More
4) Ep 88 | Always a Bit of a Generalist, Never Only One Thing (w/ Jon Miller Schwartz)
In this episode, I talk with Jon Miller Schwartz, co-founder and CEO of Ultra, about how to actually get robots deployed in warehouses:We walk through Jon’s journey from tearing apart electronics on a...Show More
5) Ep 87 | Speed Is Objectively the Most Important Thing in Life (w/ Axel Peytavin)
Axel Peytavin, co-founder & CEO of Innate, shows you how to teach real robots with language and quick demos without being a roboticist.We talk about Axel’s path from France to Stanford and why he is b...Show More
6) Ep 86 | It’s Not A Hardware Problem. It’s A System Problem (w/ Tom Zhang)
Tom Zhang, founder and CEO of Daxo Robotics: with over 100 actuators they challenge everything we thought we knew about dexterity.In this episode, we talk about his journey from growing up in a mounta...Show More
7) Ep 85 | Having A Company Is Maybe The Hardest Way To Get Rich (w/ Maximilian Schilling)
Maximilian Schilling, co-founder and CEO of warmwind, is building a new kind of browser where AI works like a digital employee: clicking, typing, and navigating apps visually instead of through APIs. ...Show More
8) Ep 84 | Fundamental Improvement Over Incremental Change (w/ Xavier (Tianhao) Chi)
Robots still need weeks of coding to learn one new task. Xavier (Tianhao) Chi is changing that with Mbodi AI:Mbodi helps industrial robots learn through language and demonstration. No coding, no engin...Show More
9) Ep. 83 | You Become Who You Hang Out With (w/ Ashish Kapoor)
Ashish Kapoor is building General Robotics to solve the biggest deployment problem in robotics: Getting real robots to work in the real world. In this episode, he shares how he’s doing it, and why mos...Show More
10) Ep 82 | College Is Going to Be Obsolete by the End of This Decade (w/ Brian Walker)
In this episode, I talk with Brian Walker, founder and CEO of REVEL, the company building the simulation backbone for humanoid robotics. Brian’s journey started far from Silicon Valley: growing up in ...Show More