Humanoid Robots: Safety, Scale, and the Road to Reality | Jeff Cardenas
Jeff Cardenas of Apptronik discusses humanoid robot safety, deployment scale, and product design with the Automated Podcast host at the Humanoid Robot Forum.
1054 talks, interviews and lectures on humanoid robots, each summarised with its key moments, so you can read the gist and jump to the part you need.
Jeff Cardenas of Apptronik discusses humanoid robot safety, deployment scale, and product design with the Automated Podcast host at the Humanoid Robot Forum.
A 1X presenter explains how its world model helps the Neo humanoid robot turn prompts into autonomous actions and learn from generated task data.
David, an LG presenter at CES Las Vegas, introduces LG’s CLOi home robot and demonstrates how it works with ThinQ and connected appliances across family, laundry, and senior-living routines.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang talks with the No Priors hosts about reasoning models, jobs, open source, robotics, AI infrastructure, and the case against the AI bubble narrative.
Amnon Shashua, CEO of Mobileye, presents the company’s automotive and robotics plans at CES 2026 and discusses its Volkswagen and MOIA partnership with Christian Senger, CEO of Volkswagen Autonomous Mobility.
Kevin Qiu, product manager for the TRON series at LimX Dynamics, discusses its research robots, development tools, and field applications with Chris Matthieu of RealSense.
Karol Hausman and Tobi Springenberg of Physical Intelligence discuss how robotic foundation models can learn tasks, generalize across settings, and improve through real-world experience.
Jeremy Fishel, principal scientist and researcher at Sanctuary AI, discusses dexterous hands and tactile sensing with Jeff Rick at the Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California.
Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, and Atlas engineers Zach Jackowski and Scott Kuindersma discuss training and deploying AI-powered humanoid robots at Hyundai’s Georgia factory and Boston Dynamics’ Massachusetts lab.
Zeroth’s brand film presents the company’s view of how robots can support human curiosity and creativity.
Aaron McCall of Toyota Research Institute discusses robotics research, practical limits and emerging applications with the Automated Podcast host, alongside examples from robotics teams and research groups.
Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Austin-based Apptronik, discusses the development, business strategy, and global stakes of its Apollo humanoid robots with WSJ Podcasts host Tim.
Guantani, a UC San Diego master’s student working with Professor Xiaolong Wang, joins RoboPapers hosts Chris and Michael to discuss GSWorld, a photo-realistic simulation suite for robotic manipulation developed with UCLA and Meta Reality Labs.
Aditya Sarpata, a robotics engineer at Nimble, talks with John Koetsier on NEXT about building a working TARS-inspired robot as a research project.
Lukas Ziegler, a robotics creator visiting Pollen Robotics in Bordeaux with the company’s team, explores how Reachy 2 and Reachy Mini are built, operated, and designed for open-source robotics.
Stanford researchers Jenny, AJ, and Sautik discuss their MemER robot memory system with the RoboPapers host and audience.
Sarah Bergbreiter, a robotics researcher, discusses microsystems inspired robots, distributed sensing, and small scale locomotion, drawing on collaborations with researchers at the University of Washington, MIT, and Florida State.
Kary Bheemaiah, chief technology and innovation officer at Capgemini Invent, discusses practical robotics and edge AI with Going Direct host Mel.
Aran Nayebi, assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Machine Learning Department with appointments in neuroscience and robotics, presents at the University of Toronto Robotics Institute on using interactive agents to study how natural intelligence works.
Wenley, a Cornell University PhD student who worked on the research during an internship at NVIDIA’s Gear Lab, discusses PLD with the RoboPapers hosts and audience: a method for improving vision-language-action policies through real-world reinforcement learning, trajectory collection, and distillation.
Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi, assistant professor at Ohio Northern University, discusses bipedal robot control, stair climbing, safety, and robotics education with Robot Talk host Claire Asher.
Hannah Fry, host of Google DeepMind’s podcast, tours Google DeepMind’s California robotics lab with robotics director Kanishka Rao and researchers to explore how multimodal models help robots handle flexible, longer tasks.
Ria, a USC assistant professor, and her student coauthors discuss their Humanoid Everyday dataset and humanoid manipulation research with the RoboPapers hosts.
Sanket Pathak, founder of Foundation, discusses humanoid robot manufacturing, Phantom’s design and commercial plans, and military uses with John Koetsier on NEXT with John Koetsier.
A Galaxea presenter discusses how MIT and NVIDIA’s Flash research enables Galaxea R1 Lite, paired with π₀.₅, to play ping-pong in real time.
James Bruton, engineer and creator at James Bruton, explains the walking machine’s rotary and sliding systems, controls, and first tests, then demonstrates it at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt with Matt Denton.
Georgia Tech master's students Lawrence and Pranav discuss EMMA, their approach to scaling mobile manipulation with egocentric human data, on RoboPapers with hosts Michael and Chris.
Py, CEO and co-founder of General Intuition, discusses building action-predicting agents and interactive world models with Latent Space host at GI’s office.
Dr. Yifan Hou, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s REAL Lab, discusses methods for making robot manipulation more reliable in a talk hosted by the Robot Perception and Learning Lab.
Bong, a research scientist at BIGAI, explains sensor-free force and position control for legged robots and human-humanoid collaboration with the RoboPapers hosts.
Sunday Robotics cofounder Chungchi discusses collecting household robot training data with Scott and Mara on Marwa ElDiwiny’s show.
USC PhD student Suhang and Stanford PhD student Yi discuss ResMimic, their humanoid whole-body locomotion and object manipulation method, with RoboPapers host Michael and the show’s guests.
On Going Direct, host Jordan speaks with Chris Paxton, a roboticist at Agility Robotics, and Michael Cho, co-founder of Beat Robot and RoboPapers co-host, about robot learning, data, evaluation, and ways to get more robots into the world.
Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, discusses open-source AI, robotics, and company building with Relentless host at his home.
Gian, a PhD student at the University of Washington working with Professor Dieter Fox, discusses ManiFlow with the RoboPapers hosts; the project brings together researchers at the University of Washington and UC San Diego.
Matt Gilbert, AI and data director at Synapse, discusses the state and future of physical AI with Jonas on Tech First.
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