Sri Kalimani

The Foundry Alley

Technology EN ↓ 4 episodes

The Foundry Alley explores the why and how behind cutting-edge technologies, particularly robotics and AI, going deeper than the hype. Through candid conversations with the people powering the ecosystem we surface real-world insights, tradeoffs, and lessons so you can form independent, informed perspectives on the technologies shaping our future.

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Sri Kalimani

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The Hardtech Renaissance | Glassboard Product Development, Grant Chapman 15.06.2026 43:04

What does hardware development actually look like from concept to commercialization? How do we design for manufacturability, scale and yield? In this in-depth interview, Grant Chapman, CEO of Glassport Product Development, shares his journey into hardware innovation, the unique challenges of building in hard tech, and the evolving ecosystem in Indiana and beyond. Discover insights on manufacturing...

Truths About Building In Hardtech | Glassboard Product Devlopment | TRAILER 15.06.2026 2:35

Join an in-depth discussion with Grant Chapman, Co-Founder and CEO of Glassboard Product Development on why hardware is hard, how to take products from zero to one, design for manufacturability, scale and yield. Glassport Product Development - https://www.glassboard.com/ Grant Chapman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gchapma/

Physical AI Isn't About Bigger Models [Part 2] | Ted Lutkus Onyx Robotics 31.05.2026 11:52

This is Part 2 of my conversation with Ted Lutkus, the Founder and CEO of Onyx Robotics. Robotics and physical AI get challenging in the real world because we start dealing with unmodelled forces. This is a non-trivial and expensive problem across anything that moves: cars, drones, collaborative arms, humanoids and much more. Onyx is developing the controls and simulation layer and the tooling to...

Physical AI Isn't About Bigger Models [Part 1] | Ted Lutkus Onyx Robotics 31.05.2026 20:07

Robotics and physical AI get challenging in the real world because we start dealing with unmodelled forces. This is a non-trivial problem across all dynamic systems: cars, drones, collaborative arms, humanoids and much more. In this conversation with Ted Lutkus, the Founder and CEO of Onyx Robotics, we talk about the problems in controls and why it’s so hard to get your modeling right. Onyx is dev...