Pham Quang Cuong is the co-founder and CEO of Eureka Robotics, a startup that creates software that allows industrial robots to perform high accuracy and high agility tasks. 

Their tech helps manufacturing companies around the world achieve higher productivity and quality through intelligent automation. They raised a $4.25M Pre-Series A last year!

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👋🏼 How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

We create software that makes industrial robots more intelligent, by enabling them to see, feel, plan, and act.

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🧐 What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

Before starting Eureka Robotics, I was a professor at NTU, and as part of our research in robotics, we built a robot that was able to assemble an IKEA chair.

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🏆 What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

Industrial robots powered by Eureka technology have performed more than 10M intelligent operations in factories worldwide. This is a testimony to the performance and reliability of our technology, and we are proud to have helped our customers achieve much-improved productivity and quality.

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🔍 What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?‍

• Software and hardware in 3D vision for industrial robots
• Software to make the development of complex, intelligent, robotics applications easier and faster

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💼 What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry? 

As robotics can be applied to so many fields, it can be distracting to pursue too many opportunities. It helps to focus on one or very limited applications and become really good at it.

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‍🗣 What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours? 

Sci-fi books by Orwell, Asimov, Le Guin, Liu Cixin, and more. 

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🎥 What's your favorite movie/TV show? 

Attack on Titan.

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🍨 What's your go-to ice cream flavor?‍

Rum raisin.

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FYI. We've edited this interview for clarity.