Build The Future

Cameron Wiese

Build The Future shares the compelling visions of the future and the stories of those building it. We explore frontier technologies, innovative research, and ambitious projects from around the world that will shape our future. Our guests are entrepreneurs, thought leaders, researchers, and anyone else actively working to build the world we want to live in.

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Build The Future

Episodes (78)

Wednesday Building Robots for the Ocean — Will O’Brien, Ulysses
Tue Sep 8th Growing Salmon from Cells — Aryé Elfenbein (Co-founder of Wildtype)
Aug 8, 2024 Getting Food Robots Out of the Lab — Rajat Bhageria

Build The Future

Sep 16, 2026
48½ minutes
33 MB

In the 1960s, people imagined living and working beneath the ocean. What happened to that ambition—and what would it take to bring it back? Ulysses co-founder Will O’Brien joins me for a conversation about building underwater robots and making ocean work cheaper. Will traces the company’s beginnings to a surf trip and the painstaking work of restoring seagrass, then explains the engineering behind Mako, Ulysses’ modular underwater vehicle. We discuss a deployment that went badly wrong, the consumer technologies making ocean robotics possible, and why a future full of robots will need its own...

Build The Future

Building Robots for the Ocean — Will O’Brien, Ulysses

Cameron Wiese

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