Inside Clone Robotics’ Ambitious Vision of Building Lifelike Musculoskeletal Androids

Dhanush Radhakrishnan, co-founder and CEO of Clone Robotics, sat down with Anastasi In Tech to talk about a sci-fi future we’re not quite ready for. His company’s mission? To build androids that move, act and function like humans—down to the muscle and bone. Clone Robotics started with a childhood dream Radhakrishnan had after watching Boston Dynamics’ early demo videos. He imagined lifelike androids walking among us, a vision straight out of science fiction. Decades later, that future hasn’t arrived—yet. His frustration with the slow progress of humanoid robotics, combined with breakthroughs in deep learning, sparked the idea for Clone. He