# Cutting Edge: AI-Powered Landscaping with Electric Sheep

- Show: [The Robot Report Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast)
- Published: 2024-03-08
- Length: 1h 06m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2024-03-08-cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep
- Listen: https://soundcloud.com/robot-report-podcast/cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep

## Summary

Nag Murty, CEO and co-founder, and Michael Laskey, CTO of Electric Sheep, discuss their strategy of vertically integrating the commercial landscaping industry by acquiring service businesses to deploy autonomous mowing robots. They explain how they pivoted from selling hardware to a 'robotic service provider' model to solve labor shortages and gather the data needed to train their embodied AI. The conversation details their technical approach, which relies on machine learning and simulation (Isaac Sim) rather than classical SLAM or RTK GPS, allowing robots to operate without connectivity or pre-mapping.

## Chapters

- [18:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2024-03-08-cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep#t=1093) Introduction and Company Overview
- [25:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2024-03-08-cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep#t=1512) Vertical Integration and Business Model
- [36:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2024-03-08-cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep#t=2164) Pivot from Classical Robotics to AI
- [40:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2024-03-08-cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep#t=2424) Simulation, Training, and World Models
- [49:43](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2024-03-08-cutting-edge-ai-powered-landscaping-with-electric-sheep#t=2983) Connectivity, GPS, and Future Vision

## Topics

- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Sourcing & supply chain](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sourcing-and-supply-chain)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Electric Sheep (company)
- Isaac Sim (tool)
- Verdi (product)
- AIBOT (company)
- Husqvarna (company)

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