The Robotics Stack
00:37:18 · Leo, Varun Nair, Oskar
[00:37:18] S1: I see. Any maybe lesser known company that you might be allowed to talk about that you think more people should know about? [00:37:26] S2: I mean, usually, wouldn't come here and promote any company particularly. That being said, as I said earlier, Robocurve is definitely one of the ones... A project that I really like is that people are trying to do the first, like, humanoid that climbs Everest. So, and I heard about that very recently from a friend. So I'm gonna follow that one. If there's a humanoid climbing Everest, that's going to be amazing. So I'm excited for that. Let's see what happens. It's for next April, whether it happens or not, I don't know, but I'm keeping an eye out for that. [00:37:55] S1: I think it's a guy who has a unit three g one, and he took it already through mountains in Chile, in Patagonia. Right? [00:38:03] S2: Wow. [00:38:03] S1: It is probably the same guy. [00:38:05] S0: Yeah. And and I saw on your website, you also mentioned a couple of investments that you did. One that stuck out to me was, Avea Robotics. I mean, as far as you can talk about it, why did you choose them and what are they doing exactly?
00:38:05 · Oskar, Varun Nair
[00:38:05] S0: Yeah. And and I saw on your website, you also mentioned a couple of investments that you did. One that stuck out to me was, Avea Robotics. I mean, as far as you can talk about it, why did you choose them and what are they doing exactly? [00:38:16] S2: Avea is doing teleop infrastructure for a lot of the deployment companies. I mean, I had a great chat with Ari, the founder. They just seemed like a winning team that's going do really well. And I was actually a customer of theirs at my previous company. So I have used their product and safe to say it was a very smooth experience and it helped push our sort of frontier for deployments forward. So just a happy customer sort of interested in making folks do well. So they were doing teleop they're doing teleop infrastructure. [00:38:45] S0: Yeah. So any partnerships that you're seeking right now? Any people that should reach out to you or something like that?
00:38:45 · Oskar, Varun Nair
[00:38:45] S0: Yeah. So any partnerships that you're seeking right now? Any people that should reach out to you or something like that? [00:38:51] S2: Sure. Like, I mean, for the most part, if you're interested in robotics, Sims, deployment, data, or in SF, always down to chat mode and grab a coffee, but more on the professional side of things. If you're an early stage company and it's trying to get into robotics and I'm happy to always just like advise and just be helpful, like nothing crazy. I mean, I'm more focused the most I'm doing right now and there'll be some new more updates that will be coming in the next couple of months. But for now, I'm just focused on my writing and just building a clearer thesis for everyone out there to understand robotics better. I'm always looking for helping people get jobs. I'm working with these early stage founders. The bar for talent is really high. So usually I wouldn't say like reach out to me. But if you think you're insanely exceptional and you're interested in working in robotics or compute or energy or space, obviously my DMs are open, you can reach out to me then. [00:39:39] S0: Yeah, think you said, if people are looking to collaborate on real deployments, they should reach out to you, So I guess Yes. That's always a good one because deployments is maybe not the bottleneck, but definitely a part of the bottleneck.
00:39:39 · Oskar, Varun Nair, Leo
[00:39:39] S0: Yeah, think you said, if people are looking to collaborate on real deployments, they should reach out to you, So I guess Yes. That's always a good one because deployments is maybe not the bottleneck, but definitely a part of the bottleneck. [00:39:52] S2: 100%. Actually, one last thing. If you own factories or have access to factories where you want to deploy robots, I have a bunch of really talented people who can, like, help do that. So if you're someone who has these factories, you can reach out to me. You can reach out to Leo or Oskar, they can, like, give you my Twitter. But, yeah, we wanna help re industrialize the world, starting with America, and see how we can, like, deploy robots in your factories. [00:40:13] S0: Thank you so much, Varun Nair, for joining us on the Robotics Stack podcast on this special episode number 20. I think a lot of people have learned something. If they watched till the end, of course, and if they did, hopefully, they will like and subscribe, and we will put your ex account in the description. Please go check out Varun Nair. This was the The Robotics Stack Podcast. My name is Oskar. And my name [00:40:35] S1: is Leo. [00:40:36] S0: See you. Bye bye.