22Astronauts

22Astronauts

22Astronauts with Ilir Aliu

Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 56m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Jan 2024
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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The world was built by people not different from you. We interview founders, operators and engineers, not to put them on a pedestal, but to show you they're just like you. Hosted by Ilir Aliu.

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S2E100 Ep 100 | You Need To Be 10x Better (w/ Evan Beard)

Feb 18, 2026 57m

Evan Beard is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots, building AI-trained industrial robot arms designed to automate real factory work, not demos:In this episode, Evan shares a founder path that…

S2E99 Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown)

Feb 12, 2026 52m

Grace Brown is the founder and CEO of Andromeda, building social companion robots designed for aged care and healthcare environments:In this episode, Grace shares a founder journey that started long…

S2E98 Ep 98 | Discipline Is a Transferable Skill (w/ Camilla Mazzoleni)

Feb 04, 2026 1h 1m

Camilla Mazzoleni is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of FORGIS, a Zurich-based startup building an AI operating layer for industrial automation: In this episode, Camilla shares a founder…

S2E97 Ep 97 | Why Robotics Keeps Rebuilding the Same Infrastructure (w/ Stephen James)

Jan 29, 2026 56m

Stephen James is the founder and CEO of Neuracore, and Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London:In this episode, Stephen shares his path from growing up in Wales to spending a…

S2E96 Ep 96 | Talent Didn’t Save Me, Consistency Did (w/ Steve Xie)

Jan 22, 2026 1h 8m

Steve Xie is the founder and CEO of Lightwheel AI, building the simulation and synthetic data layer powering the next generation of embodied AI and humanoid robotics.In this episode, Steve shares a…

S2E95 Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)

Jan 14, 2026 59m

I talk with Animesh Garg,Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech and one of the leading voices in robot learning today:We talk about growing up in India, building his first autonomous vehicle on a $280…

S2E94 Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber)

Jan 08, 2026 54m

In this episode, I talk with Prof. Dr. Marco Huber, Professor for Cognitive Production Systems at the University of Stuttgart and Scientific Director for AI at Fraunhofer IPA.Marco shares his journey…

S2E94 Ep 93 | Scaling Is Harder Than Building The First Robot (w/ Stefan Dörr-Laukien)

Dec 18, 2025 55m

Stefan Dörr-Laukien is the co-founder and CEO of NODE Robotics, a Stuttgart-based company building the software layer behind scalable mobile robot fleets.In this episode, Stefan shares how his path…

S2E92 Ep 92 | New Opportunities Grow From Every Failure (w/ Stephan van den Brink)

Dec 11, 2025 46m

I talked with Stephan van den Brink, founder and CEO of MANUS™, the company behind some of the most advanced data gloves used in robotics:Not only robotics: teleoperation, motion capture, and…

S2E91 Ep 91 | The Real Truth Of Autonomy Lives In The Stats (w/ Harals Schäfer)

Dec 04, 2025 55m

In this episode, I talk with Harald Schäfer, CTO at comma.ai, where he is leading one of the most interesting autonomy efforts in the world:They work on end to end driving and generative world models…

S2E89 Ep 89 | Business Masterclass: Selling First Before Building (w/ Albane Dersy)

Nov 20, 2025 49m

Albane Dersy turned down Goldman Sachs to build Inbolt, a robotics company now deployed in factories across the world. Her story is a masterclass in execution:In this episode, we talk about how…

S2E90 Ep 90 | Why are you not throwing yourself into this? (w/ Hendrik Susemihl)

Nov 20, 2025 1h 2m

Dr. Hendrik Susemihl, CEO and Co founder of GoodBytz, shows you how fully automated kitchens can solve the labor crisis in food service and still serve better, fresher food at scale.We talk about his…

S2E88 Ep 88 | Always a Bit of a Generalist, Never Only One Thing (w/ Jon Miller Schwartz)

Nov 13, 2025 51m

In this episode, I talk with Jon Miller Schwartz, co-founder and CEO of Ultra, about how to actually get robots deployed in warehouses:We walk through Jon’s journey from tearing apart electronics on…

S2E87 Ep 87 | Speed Is Objectively the Most Important Thing in Life (w/ Axel Peytavin)

Nov 06, 2025 58m

Axel Peytavin, co-founder & CEO of Innate, shows you how to teach real robots with language and quick demos without being a roboticist.We talk about Axel’s path from France to Stanford and why he…

S2E86 Ep 86 | It’s Not A Hardware Problem. It’s A System Problem (w/ Tom Zhang)

Oct 29, 2025 53m

Tom Zhang, founder and CEO of Daxo Robotics: with over 100 actuators they challenge everything we thought we knew about dexterity.In this episode, we talk about his journey from growing up in a…

S2E85 Ep 85 | Having A Company Is Maybe The Hardest Way To Get Rich (w/ Maximilian Schilling)

Oct 24, 2025 54m

Maximilian Schilling, co-founder and CEO of warmwind, is building a new kind of browser where AI works like a digital employee: clicking, typing, and navigating apps visually instead of through APIs.…

S2E84 Ep 84 | Fundamental Improvement Over Incremental Change (w/ Xavier (Tianhao) Chi)

Oct 16, 2025 50m

Robots still need weeks of coding to learn one new task. Xavier (Tianhao) Chi is changing that with Mbodi AI:Mbodi helps industrial robots learn through language and demonstration. No coding, no…

S2E83 Ep. 83 | You Become Who You Hang Out With (w/ Ashish Kapoor)

Oct 09, 2025 1h

Ashish Kapoor is building General Robotics to solve the biggest deployment problem in robotics: Getting real robots to work in the real world. In this episode, he shares how he’s doing it, and why…

S2E82 Ep 82 | College Is Going to Be Obsolete by the End of This Decade (w/ Brian Walker)

Oct 02, 2025 1h 1m

In this episode, I talk with Brian Walker, founder and CEO of REVEL, the company building the simulation backbone for humanoid robotics. Brian’s journey started far from Silicon Valley: growing up in…

S2E81 Ep 81 | Opportunities Only Arise After An Incredible Amount Of Work (w/ Jan Liphardt)

Sep 24, 2025 1h 3m

A Stanford physicist leaves academia to build open-source software for humanoid robots? I talked to OpenMind founder Jan Liphardt: OpenMind a new robotics company building an open-source, AI-native…

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