We sit down with Rithiker Vijay, CEO and founder of Autonomy, to talk about what finally makes delivery robots scale in the real world. The big unlock is not just better navigation, but smart infrastructure that removes the human-in-the-loop handoff and turns pilots into repeatable ROI. 

• why the next decade belongs to physical AI and robotics 
• Nvidia’s ecosystem and why partners matter even for startups 
• Rithiker’s path from college robotics to BMW urban autopilot work 
• why warehousing robots scaled faster than public delivery robots 
• the missing infrastructure layer that public robots need 
• how Arrive Points plus robots create seamless end-to-end logistics 
• hospital deployments and why freeing nurse time beats “labor savings” alone 
• humanoids as the future and why timelines can mislead 
• context-aware autonomy using edge AI and vision-language models 
• rapid proof of value in a large pharma facility workflow 
• autonomous deliveries in remote mining communities in Australia