Audrow Nash Podcast
by Audrow Nash
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About this podcast
If you're building a robotics company, backing one, or deciding whether to join one, this is a way to hear how they actually work from the people running them. Founders, CTOs, investors, and researchers on how the robots work, how the business makes money, and what they've gotten wrong. Unscripted, usually over an hour, with chapters so you can skip to the part you care about. Hosted by Audrow Nash, a robotics engineer who's been interviewing roboticists since 2014.
Questions and guest suggestions: audrow.com/contact
Episodes
The newest 20 of 26 episodes
- Why Defense Gets Humanoids Before Your Home Does: Skylark Labs' Amarjot Singh · 1 h 33 min · Episode 27Episode 27 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. A four-and-a-half-foot humanoid kicks in a door so a person doesn't have to go in first. Amarjot's case is that work like this is where…
- Robots That Learn Surgery From Surgeons: Inner Logic's Axel Krieger · 1 h 36 min · Episode 26Episode 26 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Johns Hopkins surgeons showed Axel's team the clip-and-cut phase of gallbladder surgery. The team recorded demonstrations, trained a robot…
- Robots That Copy Scientists for Cell Therapy: Multiply Labs' Fred Parietti · 1 h 29 min · Episode 25Episode 25 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. A bag of gene-edited cells can be worth about half a million dollars (Fred's range for a dose is roughly $400K to $2M), and today that…
- Why "Shut It Off" Fails for Bipeds: Agility Robotics' Pras Velagapudi · 1 h 44 min · Episode 24Episode 24 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. For a wheeled robot, "shut it off" can be a safety move. For a biped that has to stay upright, killing power is the hazard. Pras walks…
- The Best Robot Today Is Worth Less Than a 1960 Computer: Polymath · 1 h 39 min · Episode 23Episode 23 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Stefan's cold open: the best robot in the world today is less valuable to its owner than an average computer was in 1960. They argue…
- Why Deep Tech Investing Still Has No Rulebook: AlleyCorp's Brannon Jones · 1 h 39 min · Episode 22Episode 22 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Twenty years ago, SaaS had no rule of 40. Brannon Jones's take is that deep tech is in that same stretch now: the rules are still…
- From Napkin Sketch to Truck: BotBuilt's Barrett Ames · 1 h 34 min · Episode 21Episode 21 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Somebody draws a house on a napkin. BotBuilt turns that into a 3D nail schedule, cuts twisted lumber in a warehouse, and ships panels so…
- Eyes and Brain on the Camera: Luxonis' Bradley Dillon · 1 h 35 min · Episode 20Episode 20 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Tesla gets far on vision alone, but shipping that stack means hardware, bandwidth, AI, and sync. Luxonis's bet is cameras that are eyes…
- Legs, Mines, and Frames: Live Interviews from a Stealth Texas Robotics Event · 59 min · Episode 19Episode 19 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Three short live interviews from a stealth robotics meetup between Austin and San Antonio: legged-robot safety in human spaces, automating…
- Smell as a Sensor Stack for Robots: Scentience's Kordel France · 1 h 29 min · Episode 18Episode 18 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Vision and audio have digital sensors. Smell mostly doesn't. Kordel's bet is to make olfaction as usable for robots as cameras are today…
- A ~£50M Bet on Robot Dexterity Hardware: ARIA's Jenny Read · 52 min · Episode 17Episode 17 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. ARIA is the UK's DARPA-like funder without the defense mission. Jenny Read's program bets on robot hardware, especially dexterity, with a…
- Testing to Scale, RoboDevOps, Zenoh vs DDS: ROSCon 2024 · 1 h 15 min · Episode 16Episode 16 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Three interviews from ROSCon 2024 in Denmark: Dexory scaling warehouse inventory robots and treating testing as how you ship fast, Asimovo…
- Research MoveIt Isn't Built to Ship: PickNik's Dave Coleman · 1 h 29 min · Episode 15Episode 15 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Dave's split: open-source MoveIt was built to compare algorithms. Shipping needs containers, recovery, sequencing, and fault handling…
- Your Machines Sit Idle Most of the Day: Formic's Saman Farid · 1 h 37 min · Episode 14Episode 14 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Saman's frame: a lot of US metal-fab shops run one shift, so machines sit idle most of the available hours. Formic sells drop-in robots…
- Why Portals Beat Pipes for Underground Delivery: Pipedream's Canon Reeves · 1 h 32 min · Episode 12Episode 12 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Pipedream Labs lays storm-drain-class pipe, adds a rail, and runs tote robots underground. Canon Reeves argues the hard product isn't the…
- Why Robot Insurance Should Get Cheaper: Koop's Sergey Litvinenko · 1 h 34 min · Episode 11Episode 11 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Most property-casualty books pay out most of every premium dollar. In Koop's early data, Sergey Litvinenko says their robotics book is…
- Why Not Fast Casual? Chef Robotics' Rajat Bhageria · 2 h 5 min · Episode 10Episode 10 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. The obvious kitchen robot market is fast casual. Chef Robotics pivoted to high-volume food factories instead: fewer ingredients per…
- Why Can't You Datadog a Robot? Foxglove's Adrian Macneil · 1 h 48 min · Episode 9Episode 9 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Robotics logs aren't web metrics. Dense multimodal data, bad edge bandwidth, and "S3 buckets full of bags" break the Datadog/Grafana…
- Ship the Factory, Not Just the House: Cuby Technologies · 1 h 18 min · Episode 8Episode 8 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Cuby's product is a mobile microfactory: roughly four dozen shipping containers that land, stand up in weeks, and make home components for…
- Four-Year Tooling Lead Times to Days: Machina Labs' Edward Mehr · 1 h 47 min · Episode 7Episode 7 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Missing dies and multi-year tooling lead times can ground an aircraft for years and cost millions. Edward's bet is robotic sheet forming…
