Podcast
Conversations with the people building the stack.
Meet the people building and deploying robots. Watch the latest conversations on Core Matter, or explore the earlier episodes and transcripts below.
Prensilia
The Hand That Wouldn't Quit: Inside Prensilia's Grip on Durability
Inside the bill of materials behind a dexterous robotic hand.
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Reservoir
Why America Still Picks Fruit by Hand: Farm Labor, Field Robotics, and the Economics of Agricultural Automation
Reservoir CEO Danny Bernstein on the labor math underneath agricultural robotics.
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Earlier conversations and transcripts
Ep 03
36 min
The Missing Sense in Robotics: Tactile Intelligence for Physical AI
Youssef Benmokhtar · Chief Executive Officer, GelSight · 11 August 2026
Why industrial surface metrology pays the bills, why open-sourcing DIGIT was Meta's call and is now under review, and why there will be no single tactile foundation model.
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Ep 02
24 min
What Americans Do in Shenzhen, and Where Humanoid Value Is Accruing
Jasmine Bai · International Promotion, FAIRPlus · 28 July 2026
What American buyers actually come to Shenzhen for, and why component makers take roughly 70 percent of exhibitor count against 20 to 25 percent for whole-robot firms.
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Ep 01
23 min
How Shenzhen Actually Works: A Ground-Level Primer
Eric Pan · Founder, Seeed Studio · 12 July 2026
Why Seeed Studio tells Western founders to stop designing hardware from scratch, how the Reachy Mini production ramp worked, and what eighteen years of supplier relationships buy.
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