Beyond The Bench
Beyond The Bench
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Beyond the Bench brings you conversations with engineering and product leaders who've successfully built and deployed embedded products at scale. Join host Bill Brock, CEO of Peridio, for candid discussions about pursuing innovation at the edge
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This podcast delves into themes around hardware innovation, product development, and engineering challenges with episodes featuring topics like transforming scientific breakthroughs into technology, as seen in the conversation with LeafLabs, and the journey from programming language Elixir to enhancing embedded systems, like in the origin story of Peridio.

Beyond the Bench brings you conversations with engineering and product leaders who’ve successfully built and deployed embedded products at scale. Join host Bill Brock, CEO of Peridio, for candid discussions about pursuing innovation at the edge
In this episode of Beyond the Bench, Bill Brock sits down with Dhruv Diddi, Founder of Solo Tech, to explore how Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are transforming robotics.
Dhruv breaks down how these models enable robots to see, understand, and act, bridging AI and the physical world. The conversation covers real-world training challenges, hardware integration, and the rise of open-source robotics powered by edge AI and community innovation.
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