MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
Robotics Founders Evening: Founders on Scale, Hardware and Shenzhen
What does it actually take to get a robot out of the lab and into the real world? Three founders who have done it in three very different ways sit down for an honest panel at Mission Robotic...
- When
- Thu, Nov 12
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PT - Where
- Mission District, San Francisco, CA
- Host
- Joel Jussila
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
What does it actually take to get a robot out of the lab and into the real world? Three founders who have done it in three very different ways sit down for an honest panel at Mission Robotics.
Thursday, Nov 12, 5 to 8 pm at Mission Robotics, 3001 19th St, San Francisco
THE PANEL
Anand Lalwani, Co-founder, Cardinal Robotics (Forbes 30 Under 30) Anand worked as a janitor before earning his robotics PhD at Stanford. He started Cardinal as a student, and it has grown to 30,000+ cleaning robots deployed with partners, without institutional venture money. On the panel: what running robots at scale teaches you that a demo never will.
Abhinav Das, Co-founder & CEO, Orangewood Labs (YC W18) Abhinav has been building robot arms since 2016, after a first startup making rough terrain vehicles. Orangewood makes affordable arms for small manufacturers that you program in plain English. On the panel: selling robots to customers who have never owned one.
Max Williams, Co-founder & CEO, Axonnic (YC F26) Max did his research at Oxford on reading the muscle signals in your forearm. Axonnic turns that into a sleeve that captures how skilled hands move and how hard they press, so robots can learn dexterous work. On the panel: why video alone won't teach robots to use their hands.
WHAT WE'LL DIG INTO
- What breaks when a robot leaves the lab, and what you only learn from customers - Where the...
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