Building Factory SuperIntelligence with Ariyan Kabir

About this episode

Ariyan Kabir discusses how his experiences inspired him to create intelligent machines for factory work.

From disaster response inspiration to reimagining the backbone of global manufacturing, GrayMatter Robotics is tackling one of the largest untapped opportunities in automation: bringing true autonomy to the 90% of factory work still done by hand. Ariyan Kabir, co-founder and CEO of GrayMatter Robotics, joins Greg to share how a firsthand experience with an earthquake in Bangladesh sparked his mission to build intelligent machines that can take on dangerous, tedious work. What started as a que...

People in this episode

Host: Greg Toroosian

Guest: Ariyan Kabir

Topics covered

• factory automation
• artificial intelligence
• robotics
• disaster response
• manufacturing

Keywords

• automation
• intelligent machines
• manufacturing
• earthquake
• GrayMatter Robotics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GrayMatter Robotics

Places: Bangladesh

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