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Oscar Brisset Spent 18 Vacation Days Learning to Code. Then He Built a Robot Company.
At Oxford, Oscar Brisset planned on diplomacy. A glimpse of GPT-3, a home-built coding curriculum and an inconvenient warehouse problem sent him somewhere less ceremonial - into the messy work of teaching robots to handle the real world.
Akash Gupta Is Teaching Warehouses to Think in Motion
He began with a humanoid, two suitcases of electronics and an impatience with theory. Now the GreyOrange co-founder is betting that the useful future of AI will be measured in shelves moved, orders shipped and decisions made on the warehouse floor.
Arshan Poursohi
Arshan Poursohi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Third Wave Automation, a Union City, California-based robotics company building autonomous high-reach forklifts powered by a proprietary Shared Autonomy Platform. Drawing on research stints at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Google Robotics, and Toyota Research Institute, Poursohi co-founded Third Wave in 2018 with the conviction that warehouse automation should enhance - not replace - human judgment. The company has raised over $82 million from investors including Woven Capital (Toyota's growth fund), Norwest Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Qualcomm Ventures, and Zebra Technologies, and its TWA Reach forklifts now operate commercially in warehouses across the U.S.