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00:01:26 · S2, S3, S4, S5, Ahmad Baitalmal, Ahmad Baitalmal
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00:02:15 · Ahmad Baitalmal, Chris Walti
[00:02:15] S7: really work in the field a little bit. Work in the field. You think you have an idea for some new service or product. Work in that field and get insight. That's something I got out of my Stanford experience. Maybe you have an idea of what's really valuable and useful as a product, but the best approach to creating value is first that you get insights into what the problem is. [00:02:40] S8: My name is Chris Walti. I'm the CEO and cofounder of Mytra. We're a two year old company based out of South San Francisco. A little bit about my background before starting Mytra, I was at Tesla for seven and a half years. Before Tesla, I had various positions in renewable energy and consulting. I was an electrical engineer undergrad. But at Tesla, I joined to lead product and hardware for the supercharger team, and I launched various products like paid supercharging. [00:03:09] S7: My name is Ahmad Baitalmal. I am the CTO and co founder at Mytra. Mytra is building robots for warehouse material flow, trying to solve a fundamental problem with the material flow in warehousing logistics and manufacturing as well.
00:03:28 · Chris Walti
[00:03:28] S8: So I joined Tesla in 2014. I think this is after the dual motor Model S was launched or was announced. You know, there's a lot of skepticism. Are electric vehicles going to be successful? Is fully battery electric vehicle or plug in hybrid, you know, Tesla versus Fisker? A lot of uncertainty in the market then, but, you know, I joined Tesla to to solve a very clear problem. I was working on more traditional wheeled automation and, of course, a lot of the fixed infrastructure projects that we had at Tesla beforehand. And then, you know, this challenge of let's build a humanoid robot was given to our team because we had an integrated robotics team, but the challenges of a humanoid are very different than building a wheeled robot on the floor, legged locomotion, grasping in the manipulation, the kinds of of of decisions that this robot has to process. A perception systems are are wildly different. And so first, Tesla had precisely zero expertise of humanoid robotics at the time. So I had to go and figure out who the experts were, meet with them, try to establish a recruiting pipeline, try to find the internal experts within Tesla who were willing and able and also had the foundational skill sets to be able to solve this problem, I had to give myself a two month crash course in humanoid robotics. So that was really an interesting time. But, you know, I think one of the things that Tesla teaches you to be very resourceful, that wasn't the first time I've been asked to solve a problem, which I had no really like deep or meaningful background in. But you structure the problem, you go find the information you need, hop on a plane to meet with the experts as you need. So you do what it takes to figure it out. You know, Elon laid a mandate out that we needed to get some robot walking in three months. And so between internal experts and talking with some folks outside the company, have to get... Accomplish that goal. I think as a whole, though, all robots are not created equal. All robot challenges are not equal. Anytime you're talking about legged locomotion or just advanced grasping, the perception that the type of data and the consistency of data, the frequency of the refresh rates, like I'm not just looking at a hand, like I need to understand like the forces and there's literally infinite ways I could grab something.
00:05:38 · Chris Walti, S0
The difficulty of repeating that and making that some sort of industrial process is many orders of magnitude more difficult than driving a bot around the floor of a factory. You know, if we think about how difficult it has been to do full self driving cars or autonomous vehicles, you know, you could argue that that problem is not a solved problem yet because we don't have ubiquitous cars, you know, driving highways and and surface streets yet. Right? You do have companies that are driving... Like, you can walk outside of this building. You will see a car, unmanned car drive by this this facility. Ad[00:06:12] S0: This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini in Chrome? That's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50 page restoration block or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini in Chrome is here for it. Ready to make anything online make sense? There's no place like Chrome. Check responses, setup required, compatibility, and availability varies 18 plus.
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