Show Notes
In this episode of the robotics stack podcast we are covering Niantic Spatial & their Large Geospatial Model (LGM). Then we give you a little update on Robot Hands which take up a huge chunk of R&D usually. After that we get to companies working on the Robot Girlfriend & Boyfriend idea for companionship e.g. Ubtech with their Uworld U1. Finally we wrap up with the Unitree IPO and the key financial points around it.
#robot #girlfriend #ai #podcast
0:00 Podcast Overview 0:31 Niantic Spatial 0:58 Company History 3:20 Large Geospatial Model (LGM) 5:46 VPS 2.0 6:32 Scaniverse 8:05 Flexion Partnership 9:42 Coco Robotics 9:59 Vantor 10:19 Digital Twin of a City 10:55 Spexi 11:11 Strategy 12:20 Robot Hands 14:40 Tacta Systems 20:30 Xynova 22:59 Chinese Hand Companies 23:36 Agilink AI 24:08 Inspire Robots 24:30 Tesla Optimus v3 25:01 Figure 03 25:55 Xela Robotics 26:27 Robot Girlfriend & Boyfriend 27:20 UBTECH UWORLD U1 29:32 Realbotix 30:36 Intima 31:20 Aheadform 32:41 Somnia Lab 33:51 Lovesense 34:22 Notable Mentions 36:24 Unitree IPO 38:40 Products 41:00 Funding History 44:46 Customers 45:47 Capital Allocation 48:07 World Humanoid Robot Games & Regulations 49:44 Outro
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