Dr. Prasad Akella is the founder and CEO of Drishti, a company that aims to combine the cognition of AI with human flexibility in factories. Before founding Drishti, Prasad led the General Motors team that built the world's first collaborative robots called cobots in the 1990s. The cobots market is projected to reach $12 billion by 2025. In the early 2000s, Prasad was also a co-founder of social networking pioneer Spoke and helped build the first massive social graph, which is now worth trillions. Prasad is now focused on creating his third market category through Drishti's vision of combining AI and human capabilities in factories.