Paul Mikesell
Paul Mikesell is Founder and CEO at Carbon Robotics and co-founder at Isilon Systems. He founded Carbon Robotics, which is still running, and co-founded Isilon Systems, which was acquired. His professional expertise is in engineering.
Why Physical AI Is Farming's Next Frontier with Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell
In this episode of Shift AI, Paul Mikesell, CEO of Carbon Robotics, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI, lasers, and autonomy are replacing chemical weed control on farms. Carbon Robotics built a foundation model out of 150 million plant images, and Paul explains what happens when you show it a weed it has never encountered before. There's no retraining involved, and the result is something closer to a machine that understands what a plant is rather than one that's just memorized a dataset. What that actually looks like in the field, and why it took…
Organizations
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Carbon Robotics Founder / CEO 2018–present, CEO and Founder · current
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Isilon Co-founder · current
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Oculus Research / Facebook Reality Labs Engineer 2018 · past
Education
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University of Washington BS, Computer Science · 1994–1996
