What if the best way to build robot lawnmowers isn’t to sell robots—but to buy landscaping companies and quietly automate them from within? How far can you get by throwing out classical robotics and betting everything on machine learning?

I talk with Nag Murty (CEO) and Michael Laskey (VP of Autonomy) of Electric Sheep about their unconventional approach to outdoor robotics: using a single stereo camera, building generalizable world models, and acquiring profitable service businesses to gather data and deploy robots at scale. We dig into why they ditched traditional sensors, how safety is built into the form factor, and why their business model might be the future for robotics companies.

You'll like this episode if you’re interested in AI, robotics, or how bold business bets and technical pragmatism can change an entire industry.