Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Robotics Is Not About Robots

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Co-authored by Oana Olteanu of Motive Force   Henry Ford’s Rouge , source A robot running at 95% accuracy sounds impressive. In a factory ru...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

What I look for in robotics founders

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I have met with dozens if not hundreds of robotics startups who want to build for industrial operations. This is what I look for in the foun...

Factory to robotics startup: Forget the humanoid; build the System.

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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal about Agility humanoids at Schaeffler ("When Humanoid Robots Come to a Small-Town Factory...

The Industrialization of Low Earth Orbit: Beyond Collision Avoidance

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When SpaceX unveiled its Stargaze Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system last month, the positioning was largely as a collision avoidance ...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

How a board should govern innovation it cannot predict (6/6)

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Supervisory boards are designed to control risk, ensure accountability, and protect long term value. That logic works well for established b...

Why industrial startups don't scale like software, and why that matters for corporate strategy (5/6)

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Over the last decade, industrial companies have tried to adopt startup methods like agile teams, MVPs, incubator and venture units with the ...

How to run a corporate venture portfolio without becoming a venture capital firm (4/6)

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Operational companies run on annual planning cycles.  Venture building runs on learning cycles.  Trying to manage the second with the first ...