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Jan Liphardt on Building the AI Brain for Humanoid Robots

Humanoid robots can walk, gesture, and look astonishingly capable in a polished demo. Then Jan Liphardt bought one for his house, along with three quadruped robots, and discovered how quickly the illusion breaks. After charging the batteries and getting the humanoid to stand, it simply stood there…

This is Automated

Get a direct line to the biggest names and brightest minds in robotics, Physical AI, and automation. Automated with Brian Heater brings you long-form conversations and unfiltered insights into how we got here, where we’re going, and what’s behind the technologies impacting how we live and work. The…

Amanda Prorok on Robot Teams, Physical AI, and Trust

The future of robotics may not belong to one machine that can do everything. It may belong to teams of specialized robots that learn how to work together. In this special episode of Automated, recorded at the Davos Tech Summit in Switzerland, Brian Heater speaks with Amanda Prorok, professor of co…

Dhruv Batra on What AI Still Cannot Do in the Physical World

AI can speak fluently, reason through problems, and describe the world. Getting it to do something in the world is a much harder problem. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, about the gap between language models that genera…

Clara Vu on Why General-Purpose Robots Are So Hard to Ship

Humanoid robots are attracting enormous investment and dominating the conversation around physical AI. But Clara Vu believes the form factor is a trap. The more a robot is expected to look and work like a person, the more people assume it has human-level capabilities. In reality, forcing spinning …

Carolina Parada on Gemini Robotics, Robot Data and Physical AGI

Ten years ago, Google DeepMind’s robotics team wanted to build a single model that could go from pixels to motor control. People thought the idea was crazy. Today, much of general-purpose robotics is moving in that direction. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Carolina Parada, …

Tony Zhao on Why Home Robots Could Unlock General Intelligence

A robot does not need another robot to learn how to work in a home. That idea is at the center of Sunday Robotics. The company is building Memo, a general-purpose home robot trained with human data collected through its custom Skill Capture Glove. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks…

Dr. Ahmad Bahai on the Semiconductor Race Behind AI and Robotics

AI and robotics may look like software revolutions. But every breakthrough depends on the semiconductors underneath them. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Dr. Ahmad Bahai, chief technology officer at Texas Instruments, about the chips, power systems, sensors, and edge-process…

Karen Panetta on Digital Twins, Inclusive AI and Engineering for Impact

AI should not be judged only by how advanced it is. It should also be judged by who it helps and who its designers remembered to include. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Karen Panetta, Distinguished Professor and Dean for Graduate Education at Tufts University and founder of…

Andie Zhang on Why Industrial Robots Still Beat Humanoids

Humanoid robots are receiving more attention than almost any other form of physical AI. But Andie Zhang says factory buyers still care more about speed, precision, reliability, safety, and ROI than a human shape. In this episode of Automated, recorded at the inaugural Davos Tech Summit, Brian Heat…