Day 3 · Interview 11 of 141:37 PM · Moscone West

Aim Phattananat Wongwan

Co-Founder, MUI Robotics

AI that can smell: an odor-sensing foundation model for robots.

The full conversation

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The short version

2:57 · Aim's answers, condensed.

Clips

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AI can see and hear. It can't smell.

“We are building AI that can smell just like humans. So in today's world, AI can see, AI can hear, AI can talk, AI can touch, but AI still can't smell and taste. and that is because currently there's no smell data on it a…”

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Every smell has a fingerprint

“It measures the volatile organic compound in the air, and then it turns the volatile organic compound in the air into what we call an odor fingerprint. An odor fingerprint. An odor fingerprint. Tell me a little bit more.…”

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Assist people. Don't replace them.

“You're basically eliminating those jobs tell me a little bit more about if this kind of automate a lot of this process what happens to those people Our goal is not to eliminate people our goal is to assist people in dang…”

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Being a solo founder is hard

“You've got to find the right team. You know, being a solo founder is hard. And, you know, you can only do great things when you're building it, when you have a team. I was a program director of a startup accelerator for …”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

MUI Robotics team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026