
Dhanush Radhakrishnan is the founder of Clone Robotics, building musculoskeletal androids driven by fluidic artificial muscles. His thesis is simple: copy human anatomy one to one, pair it with modern deep learning, and you get human level strength, speed, and dexterity in a soft body at a cost that can scale.
From proving a durable human level hand to assembling a full body, muscle driven android in a year, Dhanush Radhakrishnan is chasing human parity in robotics. In this conversation, he shares lessons on focus, verticalization, talent, simulation first locomotion, and why copying nature reduces engineering risk while speeding up product learning.
October 19, 2025

Untethered bipedal walking. It needs compact valves, batteries, the hydraulic heart, accumulators, reservoir, tubes, and cables all inside rib cage, abdomen, and pelvis, plus trained locomotion. Hitting this proves a true synthetic human that can move on its own, which unlocks real world value at scale.
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