John Koetsier hosts Boston Dynamics leaders Marco Da Silva, who runs the Spot business, Alex Perkins, who leads Stretch robotics, and Mike Murphy, a senior systems engineering leader, on NEXT with John Koetsier’s TechFirst podcast about robot design, deployment, and the company’s product plans.
Kevin Dowling, managing director of Robotics Factory in Pittsburgh and a former Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute scientist, talks with John Gater about robotics and automation in agriculture.
NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger discusses robot coworkers with the host at a Web Summit session, covering how robots could support people at work and at home.
Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Apptronik, joins John Koetsier on NEXT to explain how the Austin company is developing Apollo and bringing humanoid robots toward commercial use.
Geordie Rose, co-founder and CEO of Sanctuary AI, discusses the company’s Phoenix humanoid robot, its AI and hardware strategy, and its early commercial applications with John Koetsier on NEXT’s TechFirst.
MIT professor and CSAIL director Daniela Rus talks with NEXT host John Koetsier about the limits of general-purpose robots, how specialized and modular machines could help people, and the technical and social challenges of automation.
Jörgen Pedersen, CEO of Sarcos and founder of RE2 Robotics, talks with NEXT host John Koetsier about tactile sensing, remote manipulation, and robotics for hazardous and labor-intensive work.
MIT PhD student Martin Nisser explains ElectroVoxels, a system of electromagnet-driven reconfigurable robots, in an interview with NEXT host John Koetsier.
Ben Wolff, who leads Sarcos Robotics, joins Josh on NEXT with John Koetsier to discuss the Guardian XT, a remotely operated robot for hazardous industrial work.
Klaus, CEO of Blue Ocean Robotics, discusses the company’s robot venture factory and service robotics with John Koetsier on NEXT, from Odense, Denmark.
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