Google Cloud's manufacturing chief: industrial AI is a Jenga problem
AnneliesGamble · x · 2026-10-14
A conversation with Praveen Rao, Global Director of Manufacturing at Google Cloud, on the architecture of industrial autonomy.
"It's always harder to solve a Jenga problem than a chess problem": manufacturing pairs physical environments and legacy equipment with tightly interdependent processes, so every action ripples through the system. Rao — a mechanical engineer who has held CIO/CTO roles at IBM and AWS — discusses what it takes to move industrial AI into production.
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