Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig join MTS to discuss Dana, their new agentic platform for building physical AI applications at scale. They explain how physical AI differs from digital AI, why safety critical systems require fundamentally different approaches, and how they're working to bring intelligence to a billion machines across automotive, mining, agriculture, and defense.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:01) What Dana Actually Does

(00:05) The Bottlenecks In Physical AI

(00:13) Who Captures AI Value

(00:18) Ensuring System Safety At Scale

(00:19) Predicting The Autonomous Market Structure

(00:23) Industries Adopting Autonomy First

(00:25) The Future Belongs To Builders

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