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Ananth Kashyap Is Teaching AI to Get Its Hands Dirty
The Sureform founder started with a high-school iOS app and arrived at a harder question: how do you teach AI what real work feels like? His answer begins in the wonderfully untidy places where people already know what to do.
Adrian Macneil Is Building the Debugger for the Physical World
A childhood near New Zealand orchards, a payments detour, and five years inside Cruise taught Adrian Macneil the same lesson: robots need better tools before they can become ordinary. Foxglove is his decade-long bet on the unglamorous infrastructure underneath physical AI.
Benji Barash
Benji Barash is the co-founder and CEO of Roboto AI, a Seattle startup building an analytics platform for robotics and physical AI. A former engineering leader on Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program, he spent his Amazon days writing throwaway scripts to wrangle sensor logs - and turned that frustration into a company. After more than six years at Amazon and a year as entrepreneur-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI, he and CTO Yves Albers-Schoenberg launched Roboto out of stealth in 2023 with a $4.8M seed round, on the conviction that robotics doesn't have an algorithm problem, it has a data problem.