Show Notes
Sai Vemprala, CTO of General Robotics, talks about why robotics still faces a major gap between research and real-world deployment—and how the company’s Grid platform aims to close it.
Their conversation explores robot-agnostic intelligence, simulation, reusable skills, deployment architecture, enterprise data ownership, and the growing role of agentic AI.
Rather than relying on one universal “robot brain,” Grid combines specialized capabilities—including perception, grasp prediction, and motion planning—into workflows that can be adapted to different robots and tasks.
Sai also explains how simulation and deployment data can work together in a feedback loop, and how agents could help build, evaluate, and deploy robotic skills.
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