Castuner

22Astronauts

22Astronauts with Ilir Aliu

The world was built by people not different from you. We interview founders, operators and engineers, to show you they're just like you. Hosted by Ilir Aliu.

Podcast website

Listen in your app

Episodes

113 episodes

  1. Ep 113 | Why Robotics Needs Physical Benchmarks, Not Simulation (w/ Ali Ansari, CEO Micro1) 40:27
  2. Ep 112 | Why 99% Reliability Means Your Robotics Fleet Fails (w/ Joe Harris, CEO Alloy Robotics) 52:45
  3. Ep 111 | Customers Don't Want Cooking Robots, They Want Assembly (w/ Rajat Bhageria, Chef Robotics) 1:02:49
  4. Ep 110 | Your Factory Data Is Lying to You (w/ Silviu Homoceanu, CTO Almetra) 59:24
  5. Ep 109 | Inside Almond: The $8,999 Physical AI Robot (w/ Saba Khalilnaji) 49:57
  6. Ep 108 | AI Is Inventing Hardware Humans Can't Design (w/ Prof. Mario Krenn, Feyer) 54:21
  7. Ep 107 | "We Don't Retrain Models, We Teach Them Cause & Effect" (w/ Johannes Haux) 52:36
  8. Ep 106 | "There Is Zero ROI in Home Humanoids" (w/ Nic Radford) 54:30
  9. Ep 105 | Red Tape Cost Us a 5-Year Lead in Humanoid Robotics (w/ Jan Peters) 1:15:20
  10. Ep 104 | How to Train 99.9% Reliable Robots for $5 (w/ Igor Kulakov) 1:06:42
  11. Ep 103 | Why Robotics Hasn't Had Its ChatGPT Moment Yet (w/ Jiafei Duan) 55:56
  12. Ep 102 | Why Humanoids Won’t Be in Our Homes Anytime Soon (w/ Majid Khadiv) 1:11:31
  13. Ep 101 | Investing $19M in Humanoids with Zero Robotics Experience (w/ Andrew Kang, RoboStrategy) 55:49
  14. Ep 100 | You Need To Be 10x Better (w/ Evan Beard) 57:21
  15. Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown) 52:47
  16. Ep 98 | Discipline Is a Transferable Skill (w/ Camilla Mazzoleni) 1:01:40
  17. Ep 97 | Why Robotics Keeps Rebuilding the Same Infrastructure (w/ Stephen James) 56:35
  18. Ep 96 | Talent Didn’t Save Me, Consistency Did (w/ Steve Xie) 1:08:18
  19. Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg) 59:54
  20. Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber) 54:10
  21. Ep 93 | Scaling Is Harder Than Building The First Robot (w/ Stefan Dörr-Laukien) 55:20
  22. Ep 92 | New Opportunities Grow From Every Failure (w/ Stephan van den Brink) 46:30
  23. Ep 91 | The Real Truth Of Autonomy Lives In The Stats (w/ Harals Schäfer) 55:05
  24. Ep 89 | Business Masterclass: Selling First Before Building (w/ Albane Dersy) 49:44
  25. Ep 90 | Why are you not throwing yourself into this? (w/ Hendrik Susemihl) 1:02:56
  26. Ep 88 | Always a Bit of a Generalist, Never Only One Thing (w/ Jon Miller Schwartz) 51:50
  27. Ep 87 | Speed Is Objectively the Most Important Thing in Life (w/ Axel Peytavin) 58:36
  28. Ep 86 | It’s Not A Hardware Problem. It’s A System Problem (w/ Tom Zhang) 53:38
  29. Ep 85 | Having A Company Is Maybe The Hardest Way To Get Rich (w/ Maximilian Schilling) 54:59
  30. Ep 84 | Fundamental Improvement Over Incremental Change (w/ Xavier (Tianhao) Chi) 50:06
  31. Ep. 83 | You Become Who You Hang Out With (w/ Ashish Kapoor) 1:00:14
  32. Ep 82 | College Is Going to Be Obsolete by the End of This Decade (w/ Brian Walker) 1:01:45
  33. Ep 81 | Opportunities Only Arise After An Incredible Amount Of Work (w/ Jan Liphardt) 1:03:42
  34. Ep 80 | You Will Die If You Don’t Do It (w/ Bob van Luijt) 56:12
  35. Ep 79 | Calm Down, Slow It All Down, Let Clarity Emerge (w/ Vikash Kumar) 56:03
  36. Ep 78 | Don't Start With A Whiteboard, Talk To Customers (w/Brennand Pierce) 55:00
  37. Ep 77 | If Other People Can Do It, Why Not Us? (w/ Aaron Tan) 48:56
  38. Ep 76 | Fear and Pressure Fade When Joy Takes Over (w/ Brendah Njiru) 1:14:07
  39. Ep 75 | We Should Scale It Up Ourselves (w/ Lerrel Pinto) 51:20
  40. Ep 74 | Why Early Corporate Experience Is Valuable for Entrepreneurs (w/ Benji Barash) 1:06:27
  41. Ep 73 | Learn It Yourself Before Hiring for Expertise (w/ Madison Maxey) 50:46
  42. Ep 72 | Found the perfect track, combining science and design (w/ Matthieu Lapeyre) 53:14
  43. Ep 71 | The Team Ends Up Like Charting the Path Too (w/ Kaan Dogrusoz) 54:56
  44. Ep 70 | Real Confidence Comes From The Work (w/ Benjamin Bolte) 54:17
  45. Ep 69 | You can really build things with a small team (w/ Nikolaus West) 1:13:07
  46. Ep 68: Personal Agency and Shaping One's Own Life (w/Chang Liu) 55:45
  47. Ep 67: Doing Plan A to Do B Doesn’t Work (w/ Dhanush Radhakrishnan) 53:01
  48. Ep 66 | Ship One New Product Every Week Until Something Sticks (w/ Tibo Louis-Lucas) 55:04
  49. Ep 65 | The Failing Part is Not Very Valuable if You Don't Learn (w/ Victor Splittgerber) 1:04:41
  50. Ep 64 | Degrees and Job Doesn't Matter - What Matters Is Being True (w/ Haixuan Xavier Tao) 1:01:04