Robotics and Pizza with Moto Pizza

Lee Kindell didn't come from robotics. He came from a century-old sourdough starter, a shuttered hostel, and a pandemic that forced his hand. What he built out of that — Moto Pizza , now one of Seattle's most talked-about restaurant concepts — turned out to be one of the most compelling real-world robotics deployments in the city. Picnic pizza robots. Drone delivery. Stadium-scale automation. A three-month waitlist. This isn't food tech. It's hard tech, running in production, built by a founder who got there through necessity and curiosity rather than a CS degree. Actuate Ventures is bringing Lee to UW CoMotion Startup Hall for a fireside during Seattle Deep Tech Week — an honest conversation about his journey, what he's learned deploying…