On this particular episode of the EU-Startups Podcast, we kick off a five-part interview sequence recorded throughout Leonard Launch Day in Paris, in partnership with Leonard, the innovation and foresight platform of the VINCI Group that helps startups and inside initiatives shaping the way forward for development, infrastructure, vitality, and mobility!
Through the occasion, we sat down with 5 corporations from its 2026 cohort for in-depth conversations. This primary interview within the sequence options Ryan Luke Johns, CEO of Gravis Robotics, a Swiss ConTech firm based in 2022, enabling autonomy in heavy equipment. We discover why autonomy is changing into more and more necessary in development, the challenges of deploying robotics in advanced environments, why retrofitting present tools is vital to real-world adoption, and far more!
Key Takeaways:
- Why autonomy in heavy equipment is changing into a necessity, not a luxurious
- The security advantages of eradicating people from high-risk machine operations
- Retrofitting present tools versus constructing autonomous machines from scratch
- The realities of deploying robotics on reside development websites
- How human operators’ roles are evolving alongside autonomous programs
