Dr. Asad Tirmizi, Co-Founder and CEO of Trener Robotics, breaks down the full lifecycle of AI in industrial robotics.
We cover how models are actually built - the training pipelines, the data, and what separates people who've done it from people who've read about it. Then we get into deployment reality - what happens when AI hits a real factory floor. And we close with the part nobody wants to discuss - how do you actually sell this stuff through integrators and OEMs.
Asad previously worked at Vicarious (acquired by Google) and ByteDance's robotics program. Trener recently raised a $32M Series A co-led by Engine Ventures and IAG Capital Partners to scale their Acteris platform - a robot-agnostic AI skills platform that works across ABB, Universal Robots, FANUC and others.
Learn more about Trener Robotics: https://trener.ai
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