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Todays show:

Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics joins Jason to discuss the purpose-designed robots being built at Gecko (3:01), the value of “bear hugging” your key customers (23:39), the “BOM” of current and future robots (1:02:14), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics joins Jason.

(3:01) The purpose-designed robots being built at Gecko.

(7:03) Origin story behind Jake’s startup.

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(10:38) Show us the robots!

(17:43) Details on the frequency of needed infrastructure inspections. (19:24) DevSquad - Get an entire product team for the cost of one US developer plus 10% off at http://devsquad.com/twist (23:39) The value of “bear hugging” your key customers. (27:42) Bridging physical and digital with Gecko’s Cantilever digital twins. (29:36) Hubspot for Podcast Networks - The Next Wave: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNextWavePod “The Large Language Model Race with Pete Huang, Founder of The Neuron” episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8elHTM9cOOA

(33:50) Extending the value of inspections with fixed sensors. (46:47) Opening up the conversation to the AI data collected.

(54:44) Why some robotics companies fail while others succeed.

(1:02:14) The “BOM” of current and future robots.

(1:06:29) Where humanoid robots may first be “employed”.

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