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One brick at a time: How Monumental uses robotics to build walls

Monumental founder and CEO Salar al Khafaji appeared on Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast to discuss "Walls as a Service" and the construction opportunity for robotics and automation. Al Khafaji, who previously co-founded the data visualization platform Silk that Palantir Technologies acquired in 2016, said Monumental aims to make construction software-defined and hardware-enabled. The episode's news segment also covered Agility Robotics reporting $1.8 million in revenue ahead of a humanoid SPAC, a Figure and Nscale partnership for up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, and Boston Dynamics veterans launching Dynamic Creatures.

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One brick at a time: How Monumental uses robotics to build walls
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In Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast, we learn about “Walls as a Service” and the emerging construction opportunity for robotics and automation.

Our guest is Salar al Khafaji, founder and CEO of Monumental. A recognized leader at the intersection of AI, robotics, and the built environment, he is focused on bringing scalable automation to construction, one of the world’s largest and least digitized industries, by making it software-defined and hardware-enabled.

Previously, al Kafaji co-founded the data visualization platform Silk, which Palantir Technologies acquired in 2016.

Be sure to catch our prior coverage this week of Monumental.

Show timeline #

- 7:05 – News of the week
- 28:20- Salar al Khafaji, founder and CEO of [Monumental](https://www.monumental.co)

News of the week #

- [Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC](https://www.therobotreport.com/agility-robotics-reports-18m-revenue-ahead-of-humanoid-spac/)
- [Figure and Nscale sign strategic partnership for up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform](https://www.figure.ai/news/figure-and-nscale-sign-strategic-partnership)

Sponsors #

Thanks to our sponsors who make this content possible.

To learn how you can sponsor a future episode of The Robot Report Podcast, contact Jami Brownlee at [email protected]

Would you like to be a guest on a future episode? Contact Mike Oitzman at [email protected]

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therobotreport.com — original article AGIBOT to explain how to scale humanoids from the lab to the real world at RoboBusiness Vention opens Physical AI Lab for manufacturing in Montreal Boston Dynamics veterans launch Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics
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