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Automate It Ep 63 – Robots, Cells, and the FDA with Fred Parietti of Multiply Labs

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March 9, 2026

Automate It Ep 62 – The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in Enterprise Robotics

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September 15, 2025

Automate It Ep 61 - The Three Laws of Robotics

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September 15, 2025

Automate It Ep 60 - Does Nobody Care About Driver-Out Anymore?

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May 20, 2025

Automate It Ep 59 - David LaRose from Carnegie Robotics on the Reality of Robotics

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April 29, 2025

Automate It Ep 58 - Why is Hardware So Expensive?

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April 14, 2025

Automate It Ep 57 - Vertical vs Horizontal Integration in Tech

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March 14, 2025

Automate It Ep 56 - The Pitfalls of Traditional Collision Avoidance Systems

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March 14, 2025

Automate It Ep 54 - What Makes a Robot "Safe Enough"?

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February 14, 2025

Automate It Ep #55: Adrian from Foxglove

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February 19, 2025

Automate It Ep #49 - Big Robots at MINEXPO and Tesla's Robot Demo

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February 14, 2025

Automate It Ep #48 - What's Hard About AMRs

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #47 - Robots for the Military

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February 14, 2025

Automate It Ep #46 - How Do You Regulate Robots?

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #45 - Why Doesn't Starlink Solve All the Problems?

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #44 - Ahoy Matey! There Be Robots on this Ship

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #43 - The Tradeoffs of Vertical Robotics Companies

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #42 - That Radar is So Hot Right Now

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #41 - The Dirt on Dirt

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #40 - Ed Niedermeyer Talks Tesla

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #39 - The Reluctant AI Episode

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #38 - Why People Took Our April Fools Joke Seriously

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #37 - Why Robots Are "Default Blocked"

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #36 - Questions VCs Ask Us

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #30 - Is Robotics Data Really the New Oil?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #6 - How to Measure Robots

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #8 - CES & the State of Autonomy

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February 27, 2025

Automate It Ep #7 - Did Google Just Buy ROS?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #9 - Why MVPs in Robotics are Different than SaaS

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February 27, 2025

Automate It Ep #10 - Is Teach-and-Repeat Really Autonomy?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #11 - How to Choose the Right Sensors

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #12 - Robotics Demos Gone Wrong

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #13 - The Shutdown of Everyday Robots (& Why Big Companies aren't Safer for Robotics)

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #14 - The Downsides of Consultants Building your Robots

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #16 - Roombas & VCs - The Battle for Clean Floors and Funding

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #15 - Construction Robots at CONEXPO

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #17 - How Do the Current Economic Conditions Impact Robotics?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #18 - The Top Contributions Open Source Robotics Needs Now (Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2)

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #19 - Request for Robots

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #21 - Onroad Autonomy Woes (& Does it Matter?)

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #20 - Nerf Guns Explain Why Robots are Hard

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #22 - Is a VR Headset a Robot?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #23 - Is Robotics Really THAT Much Harder than SaaS?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #24 - Deep Diving on the OceanGate Submarine

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #26 - Academic vs Commercial Approaches in Robotics

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #28 - Why Are Small Robots So Hard?

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November 4, 2024

Automate It Ep #25 - Waymo Trucking Shuts Down

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October 18, 2024

Automate It Ep #29 - Meet our Autonomous Navigation Modules

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February 27, 2025

Automate It Ep #27 - No Code Lasts Forever

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November 4, 2024

Ep #5 of Automate It - Is the Autonomy Industry Dead?

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November 4, 2024

Ep #4 of Automate It - How to Kill an Autonomy Project

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November 4, 2024

Ep #3 of Automate It - Teleoperation and Art

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November 4, 2024

Ep #2 of Automate It - The Time Ilia Danced with a Robot

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November 4, 2024