Space Business Podcast #118 - Sho Nakanose, Gitai: Space Robotics

Space Business Podcast

Two words: space robotics. Gitai, founded in Japan and now headquartered in the U.S. wants to significantly bring down the cost of labor in space -in orbit, on space stations, on the Moon, even on Mars- with its robotic technology. My guest is Gitai’s founder & CEO, Sho Nakanose.

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:31 Elevator Pitch
3:50 Gitai's origin story
6:18 Pitching the company 7 years ago
9:08 Shifting perceptions
11:13 Gitai's products
13:50 Engineering approach
19:12 Use cases
24:50 Customers
26:40 First lunar use case
28:00 First lunar demonstration
30:07 Next major milestones
32:35 Business model
33:45 Vision for the Company
35:00 Cost target
36:45 Future missions
38:45 Mass production & supply chain
41:25 Humanoid robots
45:25 Terrestrial business options
48:40 Gitai is hiring!
50:00 What else is interesting in the space sector
51:38 Sci Fi