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 • 124 episodes
Machine Minds
Latest Episodes
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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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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51:51
The Missing Infrastructure Holding Robotics Back with Adrian Macneil
Robotics does not stall because the ideas are bad. It stalls because the underlying infrastructure is missing. Adrian Macneil, co founder and CEO of Foxglove, has spent his career inside the systems that power some of the most ambitious autonom...
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Episode 120
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Designing the Human Side of Robotics with Shakir Dzheyranov
Robotics doesn’t fail in the field because of hardware alone—it fails when humans can’t understand, trust, or effectively work with the systems they’re given. Shakir Dzheyranov, founder and CEO of HelloRobo, has built his company around ...
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Episode 119
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