HeyJaredBuilding Deep Tech
The show for founders building real deep tech.Each episode features founders, executives, and builders in AI, robotics, and hardware — breaking down how they build, scale, and learn.Hosted by Ilir Aliu | 22Astronauts.Whether you’re building now or just curious — tune in.
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Ep 110 | Your Factory Data Is Lying to You (w/ Silviu Homoceanu, CTO Almetra) (opens the original)
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Almetra is turning the perception stack from self-driving cars into factory intelligence. I sat down with Silviu Homoceanu, Co-Founder & CTO of Almetra, to talk about growing up with computers in post-communist Romania, eight years inside VW's self-driving programme, and why the data most factories run on doesn't describe what actually happens on the line. Silviu learned programming by translating English menus on his father's work PC, was selling self-built accounting software at 15, and came t
Ep 109 | Inside Almond: The $8,999 Physical AI Robot (w/ Saba Khalilnaji) (opens the original)
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Almond is building robots for the era of physical AI. I sat down with Saba Khalilnaji, Founder & CEO of Almond, inside the company's San Francisco factory to talk about building robots, scaling hardware, factory automation, and why Almond wants to become "America's robot factory." Saba started building robots as a kid, later spent nearly seven years at DoorDash, and eventually left to work on one of the hardest problems in automation: getting robots to operate reliably in factories where the env
Ep 108 | AI Is Inventing Hardware Humans Can't Design (w/ Prof. Mario Krenn, Feyer) (opens the original)
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Prof. Mario Krenn is the Scientific Director & Co-Founder of Feyer GmbH and Professor for Machine Learning in Science at the University of Tübingen, where he leads the Artificial Scientist Lab. For over a decade, Mario’s research has focused on using AI not just to analyze physics data, but at a conceptual level; building AI explorers that discover completely novel experimental setups, optics, and quantum hardware. In July 2026, alongside CEO Jonathan Klimesch and CTO Sören Arlt, he co-founded F
Ep 107 | "We Don't Retrain Models, We Teach Them Cause & Effect" (w/ Johannes Haux) (opens the original)
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Johannes Haux is the Co-Founder & CEO of kausable (Heidelberg, Germany), a deep-tech AI startup building reasoning-first causal foundation models. Instead of memorizing internet-scale text patterns or relying on millions of trial-and-error attempts, kausable’s models (based on the Prior-data Fitted Network / PFN approach) learn abstract cause-and-effect structures from synthetic data—enabling them to adapt to entirely new physical environments in-context from just a handful of examples. After wo
Ep 106 | "There Is Zero ROI in Home Humanoids" (w/ Nic Radford) (opens the original)
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Nic Radford is the Co-Founder & CEO of Persona AI (Houston, TX) and former Founder/CEO of Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ: KITT) & Lead of NASA’s Robonaut 2 and Valkyrie humanoid programs. With nearly 30 years of experience building humanoid robotics (from human-rated space manipulation at NASA Johnson Space Center to subsea autonomous robots) Nic brings a veteran, unfiltered perspective to the commercial humanoid market. Together with Co-Founders Dr. Jerry Pratt (CTO, ex-IHMC & Figure AI) and Jide Ak
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