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Jaisihma Rao on Smart Robots for Modern Farming | Ep 1208
In this episode of The Digital Executive, host Brian Thomas speaks with Jaisimha Rao, Founder and CEO of Niqo Robotics, an agricultural technology company building AI-powered robots for precision farming. A former BlackRock vice president who managed multi-billion-dollar portfolios during the 2008 financial crisis, Rao shares how the discipline, risk management, and long-term thinking from finance helped shape his entrepreneurial journey into agricultural robotics.
Rao explains how Niqo Robotics developed one of the first commercial “green-on-green” AI spot-spraying systems, enabling machines…
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