Automate It: A Robotics Podcast

By Polymath Robotics

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Episodes: 61

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Each week, the co-founders of Polymath Robotics sit down to give you the inside scoop on the robotics industry. They'll share war stories, weird facts, and little-known approaches to working with robots (with a special focus on autonomous vehicles). About the hosts: Stefan Seltz-Axmacher is the CEO of Polymath Robotics, and is best known as the founder of Starsky Robotics, an early autonomous trucking pioneer. Ilia Baranov, CTO, was employee # 10 at Clearpath Robotics, has led teams at Amazon's home robot division, and owned the ROS repo after Willow Garage shut down.

Episode Date
Ep 61 - The Three Laws of Robotics
Jun 25, 2025
Ep 60 - Does Nobody Care About Driver-Out Anymore?
May 14, 2025
Ep 59 - David LaRose from Carnegie Robotics on the Reality of Robotics
Apr 24, 2025
Ep 58 - Why is Hardware So Expensive?
Apr 09, 2025
Ep 57 - Vertical vs Horizontal Integration in Tech
Mar 13, 2025
Ep 56 - The Pitfalls of Traditional Collision Avoidance Systems
Feb 20, 2025
Ep 55 - Adrian from Foxglove on the State of Robotics Today
Feb 14, 2025
Ep 54 - What Makes a Robot "Safe Enough"?
Jan 29, 2025
Ep 53 - Takeaways from CES 2025
Jan 21, 2025
Ep 52 - The Demise of Cruise (& What it Means for Your Autonomy Program)
Dec 13, 2024
Ep 51 - Hype vs Reasonable Robots
Dec 04, 2024
Ep 50 - Beneath the Surface: Robots Under Water
Oct 31, 2024
Ep 49 - Big Robots at MINEXPO and Tesla's Robot "Demo"
Oct 17, 2024
Ep 48 - What's Hard About AMRs
Sep 20, 2024
Ep 47 - Robots for the Military
Sep 10, 2024
Ep 46 - How Do You Regulate Robots?
Aug 09, 2024
Ep 45 - Why Doesn't Starlink Solve All the Problems?
Aug 01, 2024
Ep 44 - Ahoy, Matey! There Be Robots on this Ship
Jul 14, 2024
Ep 43 - The Tradeoffs of Vertical Robotics Companies
Jun 20, 2024
Ep 42 - That Radar is So Hot Right Now
May 28, 2024
Ep 41 - The Dirt on Dirt
Apr 30, 2024
Ep 40 - Ed Niedermeyer Talks Tesla
Apr 25, 2024
Ep 39 - The Reluctant AI Episode
Apr 19, 2024
Ep 38 - Why People Took our April Fools Joke Seriously
Apr 05, 2024
Ep 37 - Why Robots are "Default Blocked"
Mar 28, 2024
Ep 36 - Questions VCs Ask Us
Mar 22, 2024
Ep 35 - Is Tech "Over" Autonomy?
Feb 21, 2024
Ep 34 - The State of VC in Robotics
Jan 05, 2024
Ep 33 - No GPS? No Problem
Dec 14, 2023
Ep 32 - Is It Possible to Have Sensor Overkill?
Dec 08, 2023
Ep 31 - Let's Play with the Astro Robot
Dec 01, 2023
Ep 30 - Is Robotics Data the New Oil?
Nov 17, 2023
Ep 29 - Is Autonomy a Product?
Nov 03, 2023
Ep 28 - Why Are Small Robots So Hard?
Sep 22, 2023
Ep 27 - No Code Lasts Forever
Sep 14, 2023
Ep 26 - Academic vs Commercial Approaches in Robotics
Sep 05, 2023
Ep 25 - Waymo Trucking Shuts Down
Aug 04, 2023
Ep 24 - Deep Diving on the OceanGate Submarine
Jun 30, 2023
Ep 23 - Is Robotics Really THAT Much Harder than SaaS?
Jun 20, 2023
Ep 22 - Is a VR Headset a Robot?
Jun 09, 2023
Ep 21 - Onroad Autonomy Woes (&Does it Matter?)
May 24, 2023
Ep 20 - Nerf Guns Explain Why Robots are Hard
May 16, 2023
Ep 19 - Request for Robots
May 02, 2023
Ep 18 - The Top Contributions Open Source Robotics Needs Now (Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2)
Apr 21, 2023
Ep 17 - How Do the Current Economic Conditions Impact Robotics?
Apr 08, 2023
Ep 16 - Roombas & VCs - The Battle for Clean Floors and Funding
Apr 01, 2023
Ep 15 - Construction Robots at CONEXPO
Mar 25, 2023
Ep 14 - The Downsides of Consultants Building your Robots
Mar 10, 2023
Ep 13 - The Shutdown of Everyday Robots (& Why Big Companies aren't Safer for Robotics)
Mar 02, 2023
Ep 12 - Robotics Demos Gone Wrong
Feb 17, 2023
Ep 11 - How to Choose the Right Sensors
Feb 09, 2023
Ep 10 - Is Teach-and-Repeat Really Autonomy?
Feb 03, 2023
Ep 9 - Why MVPs in Robotics are Different than SaaS
Jan 19, 2023
Ep 8 - CES & the State of Autonomy
Jan 13, 2023
Ep 7 - Did Google Just Buy ROS?
Dec 20, 2022
Ep 6 - How to Measure Robots
Dec 15, 2022
Ep 5 - Is the Autonomy Industry Dead?
Dec 09, 2022
Ep 4 - How to Kill an Autonomy Project
Dec 02, 2022
Ep 3 - Teleoperation and art
Nov 16, 2022
Ep 2 - The Time Ilia Danced with a Robot
Nov 14, 2022
Ep 1 - Welcome to Automate It
Nov 02, 2022