Sam Smith-Eppsteiner focuses on applying AI, robotics, and advanced engineering to physical economy sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and construction, with a particular emphasis on climate and industrial decarbonization. She embeds herself deeply in unfamiliar domains—from working at a mushroom farm in Rwanda to line-cooking in European restaurants—to build grounded insights before investing, and has authored detailed frameworks on scaling robotics and hardware companies. Sam Smith-Eppsteiner focuses on applying AI, robotics, and advanced engineering to physical economy sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and construction, with a particular emphasis on climate and industrial decarbonization. She embeds herself deeply in unfamiliar domains—from working at a mushroom farm in Rwanda to line-cooking in European restaurants—to build grounded insights before investing, and has authored detailed frameworks on scaling robotics and hardware companies.