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Hosted by Bogdan Cristei · technology · EN
Deep conversations with the founders, investors, and operators building real-world AI - robotics, automation, industrial systems & AI infrastructure. Past the headlines, into how these technologies are really built, deployed, and scaled. Hosted by Bogdan Cristei, venture partner and former systems engineer.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDeep conversations with the founders, investors, and operators building real-world AI - robotics, automation, industrial systems & AI infrastructure. Past the headlines, into how these technologies are really built, deployed, and scaled. Hosted by Bogdan Cristei, venture partner and former systems engineer.
The OPTIM Update is hosted by Bogdan Cristei. The show has published 11 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Determinism Is King: A Game Engine Built for Robot Training Data | Devrim Yasar, Lucky Robots" (13 October 2026, 59 minutes), "Variation Kills Automation: Teaching Robots Stiffness | Sze Cheong & Elijah Ong, Devol Robots" (29 September 2026, 37 minutes), and "Moving a Task From One Robot Body to Another | Aurora Feng, Neural Motion" (22 September 2026, 21 minutes).
The OPTIM Update publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 11 episodes.
Booking probability for The OPTIM Update is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The OPTIM Update requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The OPTIM Update's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The OPTIM Update are IT Services & Software Development and Commercial & Service Machinery. The OPTIM Update has a technology audience.
Bogdan Cristei hosts The OPTIM Update, a technology podcast with 11 episodes published.
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Episode #11
Devrim Yasar wanted a robot that would pick up his son's Legos. The roboticist he hired told him to buy a $50,000 Franka Panda and a $15,000 base, sprinkle five toys on the living-room floor, and train a policy on that...
Episode #9
Walk into a factory that already owns robots and you'll find the end of the line automated: packaging, palletizing. Everything in between is still done by hand - plugging connectors, assembling parts, moving a lens into...
Aurora Feng is building a model that takes a task recorded on one robot and produces that same task on a robot it has never seen. Video and action together, with no retraining and nothing collected on the new body...
Advanced manufacturing has automated the individual process steps. CNC, 3D printing, photolithography - however complex the step, we can build a machine for it. The handoffs between those machines still run on people...
<p>James Kujareevanich is the co-founder and CEO of Vision Lab - building the missing data layer for physical AI. They go into factories, capture first-person video of real operators performing real tasks, and turn that...
<p>Mike Xia is the co-founder and CEO of Anvil Robotics - building the foundry for physical AI. They make the hardware, software, and data tools that let robotics teams go from zero to model training in days vs months...
Episode #4
<p>Arjun Subramaniam is the founder and CEO of Factory Intelligence - a physical AI company training tactile foundation models for industrial manipulation. He's toured 70+ factories, deployed robots on real shop floors...
<p>Jared O'Leary, Co-Founder and CEO of SirenOpt, breaks down why even the world's most advanced factories are still flying blind - and what a physics breakthrough out of UC Berkeley is doing about it.</p><p>We cover...
<p>Gary Chen and Conley Oster are co-founders of Raise Robotics - they build mobile manipulators for construction sites, steel fabrication facilities, and shipyards. Environments where the work is genuinely dangerous...
Episode #1
<p>Dr. Asad Tirmizi, Co-Founder and CEO of Trener Robotics, breaks down the full lifecycle of AI in industrial robotics.</p><p>We cover how models are actually built - the training pipelines, the data, and what...
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