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Day 3 · Interview 14 of 142:54 PM · Moscone West

Raghavender Sahdev

Co-Founder & CEO, NuPort Robotics

Autonomous trucking for private sites: distribution centers, ports, forestry and mines.

The full conversation

9:51 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:43 · Raghavender's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Make trucking sexy again

“Like you said, trucking is one of the most boring industries, but it's very unsexy. Our role is to make trucking sexy again. And making sure that we are able, what I mean by that is making trucking more modern and giving…”

0:27
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Freight is the bloodstream

“Freight is the bloodstream of modern civilization everything comes on a freight either it's over the vessels planes or trucks and trucking is nearly a third or one third to one fourth of the global transportation ecosyst…”

0:39
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What customers say is gold

“Always treat whatever customer tells you is gold most of the times anybody else like investors partners advisors family none of that matters them none of some of that matters but the most important thing is customers are…”

0:44
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Autonomy on black ice

“I'd say the hardest part and the most enjoyable part is to making sure that autonomy actually works for the customer's use case. So we work with distribution centers where we encounter a lot of problems, such as how does…”

0:44
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Not replacing drivers. Filling the shortage.

“And you don't replace truck drivers, you helped truck trucking companies to automate a lot of their infrastructure is that correct Yes so we are augmenting the driver shortage problems so we are essentially enabling thes…”

0:31
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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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