Building Deep Tech with Ilir Aliu Ep 67: Doing Plan A to Do B Doesn’t Work (w/ Dhanush Radhakrishnan)
Took me 2 years to land this one...
🎙️ In this episode, I talk with Dhanush Radhakrishnan, Co-Founder and CEO of Clone Robotics:
The company building lifelike, musculoskeletal androids that move like humans and could become the next personal computing platform.
Dhanush shares how watching Iron Man at 13 sparked a lifelong obsession with tech, leading him from plasma thrusters and nuclear fusion research to founding a YC-backed robotics company now making headlines with their human-like androids.
We talk about why his first startup didn’t work out (and why Plan A to do B never does), how he met his co-founder on the internet, and why moving to Poland turned out to be one of the best decisions for focus and execution.
Clone is going against the grain: from hydraulics to neural net control, from soft-body design to building general-purpose robots from scratch.
This convo is packed with vision, hard-earned insights, and a founder who’s not afraid to do things differently.
Give it a listen. You’ll see why people are paying attention.