Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that). https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/17/the-company-making-it-easier-to-turn-your-coffee-machine-into-a-robot/
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