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Space Business Podcast #118 - Sho Nakanose, Gitai: Space Robotics


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Two words: space robotics. Gitai, founded in Japan and now headquartered in the U.S. wants to significantly bring down the cost of labor in space -in orbit, on space stations, on the Moon, even on Mars- with its robotic technology. My guest is Gitai’s founder & CEO, Sho Nakanose.

Gitai website (incl. careers): https://gitai.tech/

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    Timestamps

    0:00 Intro
    2:31 Elevator Pitch
    3:50 Gitai's origin story
    6:18 Pitching the company 7 years ago
    9:08 Shifting perceptions
    11:13 Gitai's products
    13:50 Engineering approach
    19:12 Use cases
    24:50 Customers
    26:40 First lunar use case
    28:00 First lunar demonstration
    30:07 Next major milestones
    32:35 Business model
    33:45 Vision for the Company
    35:00 Cost target
    36:45 Future missions
    38:45 Mass production & supply chain
    41:25 Humanoid robots
    45:25 Terrestrial business options
    48:40 Gitai is hiring!
    50:00 What else is interesting in the space sector
    51:38 Sci Fi

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