Adam Čtverák: from a Czech school to teaching robots in Silicon Valley

Twenty-six-year-old Czech Adam Čtverák has traveled from a school desk in Tišnov through Stanford to Silicon Valley and U.S. government contracts. Today he works at the startup Minerva Humanoids, which teaches robots to handle the most dangerous tasks in the world. Czech investors are also backing the project.

Forbes first spoke to Adam ten years ago, when he was a sixteen-year-old student at the Tišnov high school. Since then he has gone through Stanford and established himself in the American tech scene, where his team carries out orders for the government.

Curiously, Adam folds his laundry by hand in America: a robot for that seems unnecessary to him. As he put it, like everyone at Minerva Humanoids, he finds it strange how much money, effort and talent Silicon Valley spends on robotics whose end result is a machine that folds laundry or loads a dishwasher. His team chose a different direction: robots for the riskiest situations, where human lives are at stake.

By the Around Prague newsroom