TWiST News: Underwater Drones, Robot Swarms, and Klarna's Going Public | E2043
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(2:40) VATN Systems’ Nelson Mills joins the show
(4:01) The Torsk and its applications, focusing on defense and cost efficiency
(7:23) Product velocity, military drone usage, and vehicle speed and depth capabilities
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(12:01) Discussion on Chinese navy, US shipbuilding, and Rhode Island's manufacturing capabilities
(15:45) Climate for raising money in defense tech and competition in global politics
(21:04) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(22:33) Underwater drone technologies: Autonomy, swarming, communication challenges, and battery life
(28:32) Defense technology importance and peace through strength
(29:17) Sprig - Visit https://www.sprig.com/twist to book a demo and get a $75 gift card.
(35:00) LG's new stretchable screen technology and Deep Robotics' quadruped robot
(45:19) Robotics in warfare, cybersecurity, and civilian impact
(48:50) Autonomous surgical robots and science fiction predictions in AI
(54:14) Fintech market insights: Klarna's IPO and political climate effects on valuations
(1:00:18) Unicorn IPO challenges and influencing in the crypto market
(1:03:08) Comparison of the current market to previous manias and government efficiency
(1:08:42) Impact of AI on job market, economy, and autonomous trucking
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Mentioned on the show:
https://x.com/DeepRobotics_CN/status/1856601226357387396
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/11/surgery-robots-trained-with-videos
https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/klarna-adds-savings-accounts-competing-banking-business/724369
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| 0:00.0 | We don't focus too much on coming home after a long mission, to be honest. |
| 0:04.3 | You know, it's anywhere from a few hours to potentially a day plus for the small vehicle. |
| 0:09.4 | And then we're going to be announcing some bigger vehicles where you'll see much extended ranges. |
| 0:13.2 | Also, the vehicles are fully modular. |
| 0:14.9 | So you can kind of break it down and put in a backpack right now. |
| 0:17.9 | Oh. |
| 0:18.3 | And the kind of benefit of that is you can add like an extended battery pack and |
| 0:22.5 | stuff like that to get an additional range. But, wow. So the seals could have these in a backpack. |
| 0:27.6 | They land in some gnarly area. They send this thing out. It gets them a bunch of data. Then they can, |
| 0:33.1 | it helps enhance the mission or they could get something go boom. Yeah. Yeah, it's a possible use case. |
| 0:37.7 | Or you could be a researcher hiking to some remote lake and throw it in there and |
| 0:41.6 | find Lochness Monster. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:44.3 | Could be incredible legacy for the company. |
| 0:47.1 | Save Taiwan, find the Lochness Monster. |
| 0:50.0 | I mean, either of these would be extraordinary accomplishments. |
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| 1:03.4 | When you're ready to launch, use Offer Code Twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
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