Machine Minds
Machine Minds - the minds behind the machines! This is the show where we dive deep into the intricate worlds of robotics, AI, and Hard Tech. In each episode, we bring you intimate conversations with the founders, investors, and trailblazers who are at the heart of these tech revolutions. We dig into their journeys, the challenges they've overcome, and the breakthroughs that are shaping our future. Join us as we explore how these machine minds are transforming the way we live, work, and understand our world.
Podcasting since 2023 • 126 episodes
Machine Minds
Latest Episodes
Scaling Robots Beyond the Safety Cage with Andrew Singletary and Amir Sharif
As robots move out of cages and into shared human environments, safety is no longer just about stopping motion. It is about enabling systems to keep moving productively without increasing risk. 3Laws Robotics is tackling one of the hardest prob...
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Episode 125
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48:33
Building the Brain Behind the Next Generation of Robots with Nikita Rudin
From academic breakthroughs in legged locomotion to building a horizontal AI platform for millions of robots, Flexion Robotics is taking on one of the hardest problems in the field: how to make robots learn, adapt, and scale in the real world.<...
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Episode 124
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45:56
What Breaks First When Robotics Scales with Joe Harris
From gigabytes of robot telemetry per minute to natural language search across multimodal data, Alloy is tackling one of the most underappreciated bottlenecks in robotics: making sense of what robots are actually doing in the real world....
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Episode 123
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43:01
How Agile Factories Unlock Speed, Customization, and National Resilience with Edward Mehr
Manufacturing has long been the bottleneck between imagination and reality. From aerospace to automotive, complex physical products still take years to tool, validate, and produce. Machina Labs is working to change that equation by turning fact...
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Episode 122
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51:18
What Venture Capital Really Optimizes For in an AI-Driven World with Peter Harris
Venture capital looks glamorous from the outside, but the reality is far more nuanced. From surviving market cycles to backing founders through years of uncertainty, long-term success in venture comes down to judgment, grit, and pattern recogni...
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Episode 121
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