Post-AI Robotics: Autonomy, Embodiment & the Next 10 Years | Merantix AI Breakfast

Merantix AI Breakfast: The Future of Robotics

Over croissants and coffee at Merantix AI Campus in Berlin, Rasmus Rothe (Co-Founder & GP, Merantix Capital), Silviu Homoceanu (Co-Founder & CTO, Deltia), and Clemens Korndörfer (Principal Engineer, ML & Product, Micropsi Industries) go past the flashy demos to unpack what it actually takes to deploy robotics at scale in the era of AI.

The panel dives into the real bottlenecks—reliability at “five nines,” data collection and sim-to-real gaps, safety/certification, and the unsexy operational work on factory floors—plus a candid take on hardware vs. software defensibility, why Europe has to win in robotics, and a spicy debate on whether humanoids are hype or helpful.

If you’re building at the intersection of AI, robotics, and industrial deployment, this is a high-signal conversation you’ll want to hear through to the end.

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0:00 — Welcome
2:09 — Clemens intro (Micropsi)
5:06 — Silviu intro (Deltia)
7:26 — Rasmus intro (Merantix)
9:25 — Why robotics isn’t deployed
9:54 — Reliability: “needs five nines”
12:32 — Ops + safety in factories
16:06 — Demos vs reality + data pain
19:08 — Data pipelines & ROI
23:13 — VC view: data moats
25:47 — Do you need hardware?
29:18 — Can Europe win in robotics?
32:25 — Kill one idea, accelerate one
36:28 — Audience Q&A begins
36:51 — Sim vs real-world data
38:16 — Proving reliability to customers
39:23 — Home renovation robots timeline
40:21 — Cameras on shop floor: trust
42:54 — Robot foundation models: how far?
46:06 — China, IP & catching up
48:40 — What else blocks progress?
52:04 — Wrap-up & networking