E15 | Season 2 - Cetin Mericli (Locomation - CEO & Co-founder)
01/11/22 • 48 min
On this episode, I spoke with Dr. Cetin Mericli, co-founder and CEO of Locomation a Pittsburg-based startup building autonomous trucks. Previously, he was Special Faculty and Commercialisation Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, at Carnegie Mellon University, where he led the Machine Learning and Perception group.
In the past, he has been involved with many urban and offroad autonomous and semi-autonomous commercial and defense driving applications and his research has been published in over 40 publications on a range of topics in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics.
We spoke about soccer playing robots; why not all problems are worth solving; we did not talk about secret autonomous military projects, or did we? We did speak about when we might finally have full self-driving vehicles; how autonomous trucks will affect driving jobs; why engineers don’t think about the trolley problem; how to be happy; and much more....
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On this episode, I spoke with Dr. Cetin Mericli, co-founder and CEO of Locomation a Pittsburg-based startup building autonomous trucks. Previously, he was Special Faculty and Commercialisation Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, at Carnegie Mellon University, where he led the Machine Learning and Perception group.
In the past, he has been involved with many urban and offroad autonomous and semi-autonomous commercial and defense driving applications and his research has been published in over 40 publications on a range of topics in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics.
We spoke about soccer playing robots; why not all problems are worth solving; we did not talk about secret autonomous military projects, or did we? We did speak about when we might finally have full self-driving vehicles; how autonomous trucks will affect driving jobs; why engineers don’t think about the trolley problem; how to be happy; and much more....
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E14 | Season 2 - Mark Frohnmayer (Arcimoto - CEO & Founder)
On this episode, I had a conversation with Mark Frohnmayer, Founder and CEO of Arcimoto makers of (FUVs) Fun Utility Vehicles and fleet solutions for emergency services and last mile delivery. Their company is based in Oregon.
Mark graduated from UC Berkeley in 1996 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After 11 years leading advanced technology projects in the game development industry and the sale of his first startup, GarageGames, he turned his energy toward solving the worldwide problem of sustainable transportation. As CEO of Arcimoto, he has led the team from concept and startup in 2007 through Nasdaq-listed Reg A IPO. Mark also founded the Equal Vote Coalition in 2014 and he remains connected to gaming as the Executive Producer of Marble It Up.
We spoke about growing up with legos; what games can teach us about people; why Mark built Arcimoto for himself first; the perils of automotive manufacturing and homologating; their place on autonomy; the Cambrian explosion of mobility, and much more...
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E16 | Season 2 - Asaf Weisbrot (Otonomo - Head of Automotive)
On this episode, I had an interview with Asaf Weisbrot, Head of Automotive at Nasdaq-listed Otonomo. Otonomo is a provider of a pioneering vehicle data platform and marketplace, and is positioned at the epicenter of the data revolution in the automotive and mobility space. Otonomo vehicle data is being utilized by businesses, fleets, and smart cities for a wide variety of use cases, including, fleet management, insurance, emergency services, mapping, EV management, parking, and many others.
Prior to joining Otonomo, Asaf built a two decade career in global sales and strategic alliance roles at F5, Ceedo, Flash Networks, and others. We spoke about how data is collected from your car and how it is used by insurance companies and others; the secrets of odometers; micro weather; edge computing versus cloud processing in the near future of autonomous driving; and much more...
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