Eliot Horowitz Wants to Reinvent Robotics Like He Did Big Data
11 November 2025

Eliot Horowitz Wants to Reinvent Robotics Like He Did Big Data

The Spoon Podcast

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In this episode, Michael talks with Eliot Horowitz, founder of MongoDB and now CEO of Viam, about why the physical world is lagging behind the AI revolution and how Viam is building the foundational platform robotics has been missing.

Eliot shares why robotics needs its “AWS moment,” how better tools can shrink development timelines from years to months, and why practical automation, from kitchen assistants to back-of-house restaurant robots, will arrive long before humanoids.
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