ChatGPT in robots? Disrupting autonomous delivery & the ‘year of AI’ – Academy of Robotics founder William Sachiti

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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William Sachiti, the CEO and founder of the Academy of Robotics, explains whether ChatGPT will be integrated into companion robots, why mass-market autonomous cars won’t be on the road any time soon and how his company is disrupting package delivery with AI.

Sachiti is a serial entrepreneur and inventor who moved to the UK from Zimbabwe in the early 2000s. By his mid 30s he had set up and successfully exited three companies. He founded the Academy of Robotics in 2017, which has gone on to develop Europe’s first autonomous delivery vehicle for the road, Kar-go. The Academy of Robotics has also created self-driving technology used by the RAF and indoor helper robots for hospitals, currently being trialled at the NHS. Sachiti was named Disruptor of the Year by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards in 2021.

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0:00.0	There is a lottery we all play when we're born.
0:08.4	This lottery could literally mean life and death, but nobody has a choice in it.
0:11.9	It just happens.
0:16.1	The idea is you buy something online and this magical machine will drive itself to your house, do the delivery,
0:22.6	and then Karen's part of the business.
0:28.6	And the need for thinking machines is huge, but in the physical world, it's not as big.
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1:20.8	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly conversation with founders of some of the UK's
1:27.1	high growth tech companies. Each episode, we of some of the UK's high-growth tech companies.
1:29.0	Each episode, we will talk through the founder's personal journey, their vision for their
1:33.0	business and their views of the wider tech industry. I'm Jane Wakefield and I'm very pleased
1:38.2	to say that today I am joined by William Sakeetie, a serial entrepreneur, inventor and CEO of the Academy of Robotics.
1:47.1	Thanks for joining me today, William.
1:49.8	I'm a huge fan of robots, so I'm delighted to know they now have an academy, and I've met
1:55.3	quite a few of them in my time as a reporter, so really excited to chat to you about this
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