Automate It
Hosted by Ilia and Stefan · Polymath Robotics
4.7from 43 ratings
- 67
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 43
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 10K
- YouTube views
About Automate It
Each week, the co-founders of Polymath Robotics sit down to give you the inside scoop on the robotics industry. They'll share war stories, weird facts, and little-known approaches to working with robots (with a special focus on autonomous vehicles). About the hosts: Stefan Seltz-Axmacher is the CEO of Polymath Robotics, and is best known as the founder of Starsky Robotics, an early autonomous trucking pioneer. Ilia Baranov, CTO, was employee # 10 at Clearpath Robotics, has led teams at Amazon's home robot division, and owned the ROS repo after Willow Garage shut down.
- Publisher
- Polymath Robotics
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 2 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 67 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 67 - The Ionosphere Is Not a Lifetime Movie - Point One Navigation
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 66 - Pulsar Localization & Digit's Digits
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 65 - Why Don’t Robots Have an Off Switch?
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Ep 67 - The Ionosphere Is Not a Lifetime Movie - Point One Navigation
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] For those of us who, you know, don't know what the ionosphere is, that sounds like a Lifetime movie or some weird sort of sci-fi channel flick. It's probably on the sci-fi channel. It's a movie called The Ionosphere. When you look at the layers of our atmosphere around Earth, you have the troposphere, which is kind of where weather happens, you know, that we think about. And then there's this very thick layer of charged particles, ions. That's why it's very creatively called the ionosphere. Yeah. the same guys who named our company basically that that area it is sometimes extremely catastrophic to rf waves and so you'd see in these like solar flares radiation come off of the sun and this ionized content it ends up looking like almost like a hurricane in the ionosphere and that'll actually result in some beautiful auras and other things but but it totally will disrupt not just GPS, but any radio signal. […]
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- YouTube views
- 9,720
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 10 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 33 ratings
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- 74
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- 0
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 71
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Ilia and Stefan host the show. Published by Polymath Robotics.
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