Beyond the Demo: Building Robotics That Actually Work with Jennifer Kwiatkowski

About this episode

Jennifer Kwiatkowski discusses the challenges and realities of deploying effective robotics solutions.

From aerospace engineering to tactile sensing and physical AI, Jennifer Kwiatkowski’s path into robotics was driven by a simple but powerful motivation: taking math and physics off the whiteboard and making them work in the real world. Now an AI Specialist at Robotiq, Jennifer works at the intersection of hardware, software, and customer reality. In this conversation, she joins Greg to unpack what it actually takes to deploy robots that deliver ROI, why integration is often harder than the ro...

People in this episode

Host: Greg Toroosian

Guest: Jennifer Kwiatkowski

Topics covered

• robotics
• AI
• hardware
• software
• integration
• ROI

Keywords

• robotics
• AI
• integration
• hardware
• software
• ROI
• tactile sensing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Robotiq

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