Parametric is a San Francisco robotics company building autonomous physical businesses - operations that run themselves. Starting with a wash-and-fold laundromat, its bimanual mobile robots use reinforcement learning to fold, sort, and handle laundry, learning new behaviors on-site from customer feedback in under an hour. The team applies frontier-lab techniques - dense reward models, an RLHF-style feedback loop, and interpretability tools borrowed from language research - to physical work, reporting 3x higher task reliability than leading baseline models on matched hardware.

Christoph Molnar is a Munich-based statistician-turned-ML-author who turned a side project into the field's most-cited book on interpretable machine learning. Author of six books including the canonical 'Interpretable Machine Learning' (3rd ed., 2025), he runs the Mindful Modeler newsletter and consults on making black-box models explainable. With 16,000+ Google Scholar citations and a PhD from LMU Munich, he sits at the precise intersection where statistical rigor meets machine learning pragmatism.