On this episode, we covered a different kind of autonomous vehicle as I spoke with William Santana Li, Chairman & CEO of Knightscope.

Knightscope makes indoor and outdoor autonomous security robots that have been preventing crimes in the real world for over six years. The company just went public on NASDAQ through a Regulation A listing. Before founding Knighscope, William founded a series of mobility companies raising over $300 million in venture capital. He began his career at Ford, where in a decade, he climbed from an Internship in electronics to becoming a Director on the M&A team.

We spoke about being an unemployable entrepreneur; his thoughts on where we are with autonomy and why baby steps are the way to go; his mission to make the US a safer country; crowdfunding; the future of robotics, and much more...

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On this episode, I had an interview with Asaf Weisbrot, Head of Automotive at Nasdaq-listed Otonomo. Otonomo is a provider of a pioneering vehicle data platform and marketplace, and is positioned at the epicenter of the data revolution in the automotive and mobility space. Otonomo vehicle data is being utilized by businesses, fleets, and smart cities for a wide variety of use cases, including, fleet management, insurance, emergency services, mapping, EV management, parking, and many others.

Prior to joining Otonomo, Asaf built a two decade career in global sales and strategic alliance roles at F5, Ceedo, Flash Networks, and others. We spoke about how data is collected from your car and how it is used by insurance companies and others; the secrets of odometers; micro weather; edge computing versus cloud processing in the near future of autonomous driving; and much more...

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On this episode, I spoke with Dr. Cetin Mericli, co-founder and CEO of Locomation a Pittsburg-based startup building autonomous trucks. Previously, he was Special Faculty and Commercialisation Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, at Carnegie Mellon University, where he led the Machine Learning and Perception group.

In the past, he has been involved with many urban and offroad autonomous and semi-autonomous commercial and defense driving applications and his research has been published in over 40 publications on a range of topics in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics.

We spoke about soccer playing robots; why not all problems are worth solving; we did not talk about secret autonomous military projects, or did we? We did speak about when we might finally have full self-driving vehicles; how autonomous trucks will affect driving jobs; why engineers don’t think about the trolley problem; how to be happy; and much more….

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