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.

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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/salark/ , 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 https://www.therobotreport.com/tag/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 https://www.therobotreport.com/what-bricklaying-has-taught-monumental-about-robots-construction/ 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 - Boston Dynamics veteran launches Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-veterans-launch-dynamic-creatures-to-bring-characters-to-life-with-robotics/ 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\ /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection 5e343c2c312930323b3b1e3f2c2c3129383227703d3133 Would you like to be a guest on a future episode? Contact Mike Oitzman at \ email protected\ /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection cea3a1a7bab4a3afa08eafbcbca1b9a8a2b7e0ada1a3