Cibby Pulikkaseril is bringing laser vision tech to construction manufacturing through his new company Zabidou. He's taking laboratory-grade sensing and delivering it at 1/10th the cost and 10 times faster to install and commission by building a cheaper, fit-for-purpose sensor stack that's good enough — and using AI to build way more efficiently while stripping out all the platform bloat, cloud fees, and licensing fees.

We talk about how he's targeting precast concrete plants, why construction manufacturing can't be outsourced (everything's too heavy), what makes dirty industrial environments different from clean rooms, and why he's deliberately designing with low cost components that do the minimum job needed.

Plus we get into the Innovator's Dilemma playbook he's using to disrupt from the bottom, why he's manufacturing everything in Australia up to a thousand units a year, and his vision for robotic vision becoming the "sentience of a factory" — making decisions about what's happening in manufacturing and what to do about it.

Good chat about practical automation in heavy industry, the global opportunity in precast and construction materials, and where quality control technology is actually heading.