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TechCrunch named five additional judges for Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026: Caleb Appleton (Bison Ventures), Sara Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Aatish Nayak (Kleiner Perkins), Jason Risch (Greylock), and Mark Xu (Index Ventures). The 200 selected startups will exhibit and compete at Moscone West Oct. 13–15 for a $100,000 equity-free prize and a place in the live finals.
Shield AI CTO Nathan Michael, Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, and General Motors Director of Robotics Strategy Mikell Taylor will appear on the Real World AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for a session titled “Building AI Systems When Failure Is Not an Option,” covering safety culture, testing and validation, regulatory challenges, and trust for AI systems in aircraft, vehicles, and robots.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Oct 13–15, Moscone West), Nvidia Inception’s Global Head of Physical AI Les Karpas will present a session arguing robotics has yet to see a ChatGPT-style breakthrough largely because the field lacks internet-scale physical datasets. Karpas will join founders from Shield AI, Colossal Biosciences, FieldAI and Foxglove to discuss simulation, synthetic data and foundation models as ways to bridge the digital-physical gap.
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