Diana Wolf Torres, robotics newsletter writer at Droids and chief evangelist at Lightwheel, discusses physical AI and robotics at NVIDIA GTC 2026 with host Jonathan Stevens on the Thinking Machine podcast.
Qiong Wang, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, discusses general-purpose robotics, deployment, and startup opportunities with Y Combinator’s The Light Cone host.
Professor Nancy Pollard of Carnegie Mellon University discusses practical robot dexterity at an MIT Robotics seminar, drawing on research with her team and collaborators.
Mac Schwager, a robotics researcher speaking for his lab at MIT Robotics, examines whether vision-language-action policies generalize and what might make them more reliable.
A Hugging Face presenter discusses building an autonomous robot that folds T-shirts, from choosing hardware and collecting demonstrations to training and evaluating a model.
Mahi, Jeff, Manan, and Anis, robotics researchers and engineers associated with NYU and Berkeley, discuss building an open-source mobile manipulator with the RoboPapers host and audience.
Francesco Ferro, CEO of PAL Robotics and president of euRobotics, discusses his motivation for robotics and his goals for the European robotics ecosystem and association.
Roboflow CEO Joseph Nelson discusses the state of computer vision, building efficient task-specific models, and what visual AI could change with host Nathan on The Cognitive Revolution podcast.
Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber CEO, answers audience questions at a Peter H. Diamandis event about autonomous vehicles, Uber’s marketplace, labor, and the company’s expansion bets.
Tyler Habowski and Yonathan Robbins, co-founders of Kyber Labs, discuss dexterous robot hands and practical ways to automate manipulation with John Koetsier on NEXT.
An NVIDIA Omniverse presenter at GTC San Jose 2026 explains how Cosmos world models can help physical AI developers create training data, simulate tasks, and improve robot policies.
Yash, a robotics researcher at NVIDIA, presents NVIDIA Robotics Research’s work on physical AI with Jim and Yu Khor at the NVIDIA Omniverse channel event.
Leo, leader of Foxconn’s Omniverse Digital Twin project, explains how Foxconn is developing an AI factory in Texas with NVIDIA and using digital twins, simulation, factory data, and robotics.
Aaron Luke, NVIDIA’s OpenUSD standards lead and chair of AOUSD’s Core Specification Working Group, explains how OpenUSD standards and SimReady can support physical AI simulation at a GTC session; audience members from Eaton and Biotech join the Q&A.
Brett Adcock, founder and CEO of Figure AI, discusses humanoid robots, flying cars, school security technology, and his plans for personal AI with Shawn Ryan on the Shawn Ryan Show.
A representative of RealMan Robotics discusses how the company’s humanoid robot training center collects real-world data and prepares robots for work across homes, hotels, and industry.
At GTC, NVIDIA Omniverse host and panelists Pras Velicodi (Agility Robotics), Ashok Elluswamy (Tesla), Chelsea (Physical Intelligence and Stanford), Arnaud Rubaire (Exon Robotics), Deepak Pathak (Scaled AI and Carnegie Mellon), and Russ discuss data, simulation, robot brains, and deploying humanoids at scale.
Fangchen Liu, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, presents work on scalable, generalizable robot learning at the Robot Perception and Learning Lab.
Ann leads a Milken Institute panel with Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng, Upstage co-founder and CEO S. Kim, Hesai co-founder and CEO David Lee, VITAI founder and CEO Roy Lee, and Cisco APAC president Ben Dawson on AI investment, robotics, sovereignty, and innovation.
Research engineer Yujin Kim and co-authors Omar Rayan, a UCLA PhD student, and Max Argus, an AI2 postdoc, discuss MolmoSpaces with RoboPapers host Chaffee and the audience.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks with Peter H. Diamandis at an event about AI progress, energy needs, robotics, competition with China, and how to align AI with human values.
Yunja Pan, founder of Wuji Technology, discusses direct-drive dexterous hands, simulation, data collection, and company strategy with Peter Chen of AlphaFund Partners.
Rajesh, head of Advanced Robotics at Addverb Technologies, and co-founder Beer Singh discuss how the company designs and builds robots in India at Addverb’s Bot Valley facility, alongside Caleb and other Addverb staff.
Seonghoon, a PhD student at KAIST and research intern at NVIDIA, explains DreamZero, a world action model for zero-shot robot policies, in a Robo Papers conversation with host Michael.
Oussama Khatib, a Stanford robotics researcher, discusses human-robot collaboration at Stanford, including underwater exploration with OceanOneK and remote medical procedures.
Grace Brown, co-founder and CEO of Andromeda Robotics, joins Dan Robbins on Tech Careers Hotline to discuss building Abby, a companion robot for aged care, and growing a robotics company.
Chris Thorn, Atlas hardware team lead at Boston Dynamics, discusses the new Atlas design with industrial designers Aaron Abroff and James Kucera at Boston Dynamics.
Selim, an embedded software engineer, and Alejandro, a lead mechanical engineer at Singapore-based Menlo Research, discuss the Asimov open-source humanoid with the RoboPapers hosts.
A NVIDIA presenter explains how simulation and foundation models can expand training data for autonomous vehicles and robots, citing work by developers and companies including Periton AI, Skild AI, and Disney Research.
Marynel Vázquez, a human-robot interaction researcher at Yale University, discusses why robots working with people need social as well as physical intelligence at the Paul G. Allen School Robotics Colloquium, hosted by Maya Cakmak.