Weekly
Automated
Hosted by Brian Heater
Long interviews from the Association for Advancing Automation, with the people shipping robots, chips, and physical AI.
Episodes 6
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Dr. Ahmad Bahai on the semiconductor race behind AI and robotics
Texas Instruments' CTO on the chips, power systems, sensors, and edge processors under every robotics breakthrough.
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Tony Zhao on why home robots could unlock general intelligence
Sunday Robotics is training Memo, a home robot, with human data collected through a skill-capture glove.
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Carolina Parada on Gemini Robotics, robot data, and physical AGI
Google DeepMind's robotics lead on going from pixels to motor control, and the data that still has to be collected.
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Clara Vu on why general-purpose robots are so hard to ship
A human-shaped robot makes people expect human-level skill. Vu on why that form factor is so hard to ship.
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Dhruv Batra on what AI still cannot do in the physical world
Yutori's chief scientist on the gap between a model that can talk about the world and a robot that can act in it.
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Amanda Prorok on robot teams, physical AI, and trust
Recorded at the Davos Tech Summit. Why the next step may be teams of specialized robots, not one machine that does everything.