In this episode of The Making Of Hosted By Jack Pitts, host Jack Pitts sits down with Nishank Gite, Co-Founder & CTO of Nirvana Robotics, to explore Nishank’s journey from physics and AI research into building a robotics company.

The conversation covers Nishank’s background in collider physics, machine learning, neural networks, and robotics, along with the realities of building a hard-tech startup.

Nishank shares his perspective on fundraising, startup risk, industrial automation, humanoid robots, dark factories, and what it takes to deploy robotics in real-world manufacturing environments.

At its core, this episode is about Nishank’s path as a young founder building in one of the hardest and most exciting areas of technology: bringing AI into the physical world.