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Ariana Eisenstein

Ariana Eisenstein

Jul 22, 2026

speaker_0HOST
1:12
And how did you come up with the idea initially for the company? What was the gap in the market that you saw that you thought, hey, we can do this better?
1:19
Yeah, so we actually started with in 2018 when we were founded, my co-founders and myself were looking at the work and manipulation coming out of academia and seeing that robots were finally able to use their hands in a way that didn't take these long planning pauses.
1:36
And we said, OK, there's a technology difference.
1:39
What can we accomplish in the market? We looked at tons of industries across agriculture and industrial.
1:47
And actually an investor tipped us off to go check out the logistics space.
1:51
And we ended up in a warehouse at 11 o'clock at night on a tour and watching people unload these packages and talking to the warehouse workers, hearing them say, I've only done like none of us have been here longer than 90 days.
2:06
And when you ask them why, it's this job is so hard.
speaker_0HOST
6:35
So how do you marry the two? How do you operationalize that safety in a warehouse setting?

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