{"podcast":{"title":"Scaling Europe","slug":"scaling-europe-7780754","podcast_index_feed_id":7780754,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44302379/44302379-1756114015030-846dc0246eba9.jpg","author":"Sebastian Johnson","episode_count":223,"summary":"Every week Seb Johnson sits down with 5 of Europe's best builders and investors to talk about what's going on in European Tech. Prior guests include the founders of Lovable, Cleo, Voi an Zilch, as well as top VCs from 20VC, Index, Balderton and Creandum.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T22:17:10.818712+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754"},"episode":{"title":"Carla Gómez Cano, Co-founder at THEKER: Theker Robotics’ generalist robots automate any factory task","slug":"carla-g-mez-cano-co-founder-at-theker-theker-robotics-generalist-robots-automate-any-factory-task","published_at":"2026-07-07T12:54:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/carla-g-mez-cano-co-founder-at-theker-theker-robotics-generalist-robots-automate-any-factory-task","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaling-europe/episodes/Carla-Gmez-Cano--Co-founder-at-THEKER-Theker-Robotics-generalist-robots-automate-any-factory-task-e3lp0f5","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/108a8a74c/podcast/play/122503077/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-7%2F427512728-44100-2-e2d62c638f099.mp3","summary":"THEKER Robotics builds robots that takes over the hardest physical labor inside heavy factories. Carla Gómez Cano is Co-founder at THEKER. Their robots that do manual, physical work, like moving packages, assembling parts and folding garments, and use smart software to handle any task or material on a single platform. The company recently raised an $85m Series A, one of the largest robotics rounds ever in Europe. The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk Sponsors: Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026 SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/ Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeurope Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:12 - THEKER's $85m Series A 0:54 - What THEKER's robots do today 4:11 - Why THEKER skips pilots 5:03 - Building a robotics company from Barcelona 7:10 - Reconfigurable robots vs. humanoids 10:02 - Biggest bottleneck: hiring 13:01 - The robotics-as-a-service model 16:14 - Biggest lesson: staying focused 17:15 - What's next for THEKER","meta_description":"THEKER Robotics builds robots that takes over the hardest physical labor inside heavy factories. Carla Gómez Cano is Co-founder at THEKER. Their robots th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1145,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-europe-7780754/episodes/carla-g-mez-cano-co-founder-at-theker-theker-robotics-generalist-robots-automate-any-factory-task/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-europe-7780754/carla-g-mez-cano-co-founder-at-theker-theker-robotics-generalist-robots-automate-any-factory-task.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}