If there’s one thing humanity needs right now, it’s robots. Our oceans need cleaning up, our roads need maintenance, and many restaurants and farms can’t find enough staff. We technologists better get building the benevolent robot custodians that are ultimately going to make our lives better by filling potholes and picking up our trash. You’ve likely been hearing this same robotics keynote at conferences, promising useful automata that will walk among us, for the last 20 years or so. So how come we don’t see them anywhere in our everyday lives? Today’s podcast episode explores why the barrier to entry for developers in the robotics industry is steep and what can be done to change that. Our guest, Eliot Horowitz, CEO & founder at Viam, shares his vision for a future in which it’s just as easy for developers to build robots as write code for a smart phone app.