RoboPapers· Oct 17, 2025
Ep#36: Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
Uton, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, discusses whole-body conditioned egocentric video prediction with the RoboPapers hosts and audience.
Talks and interviews
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.
- NEXT with John Koetsier· Oct 15, 2025
9 million robot deliveries (!!!)
Starship CEO Alastair Westgarth joins John Koetsier on NEXT with John Koetsier to discuss the company’s delivery robots, their performance at scale, and how they may reshape city commerce.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 15, 2025
IROS 2022 Keynote: James Kuffner -- The Future of Intelligent Machines
James Kuffner of Toyota and Woven Planet discusses the future of intelligent machines at the IROS 2022 keynote, with audience questions afterward.
- Articulated Robotics· Oct 14, 2025
Why would you use a video game to simulate robots?
The host of Articulated Robotics explains how a Minecraft mod connects the game to ROS 2 and where it may help teach robotics.
- Going Direct· Oct 14, 2025
#37 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: AI, Robotics, & Decentralizing Our Economy
Jordan discusses how AI, robotics, and other technology could support decentralized production and local businesses with the Going Direct hosts.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
Dongheui Lee - Human Centric Approaches for Robot Learning and Interaction with Human
Dongheui Lee, professor of autonomous systems at TU Wien and leader of DLR’s Human-Centered Assistive Robotics Group, presents research on human-centered robot learning and interaction.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
Sangbae Kim - Physical intelligence and Cognitive Biases Toward AI
MIT robotics professor Sangbae Kim discusses physical intelligence, AI biases, and robotics research at an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society event.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
Jana Kosecka - Finding Objects in the Era of Large Vision and Language Models
Jana Kosecka, a computer vision and robotics researcher at George Mason University, discusses how vision-language models can help robots find and use objects, speaking at an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society event.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
Ken Goldberg - Is Data All You Need Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering
Ken Goldberg, a professor at UC Berkeley, discusses how robotics can combine learned models with engineering at an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society event.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
James Kuffner - Building Safe Intelligent Machines
James Kuffner of Toyota Research Institute reflects on 30 years in robotics and the challenges of building safe, intelligent machines, speaking at an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society event.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
Giulio Sandini From Active Vision to iCub and the Elusive Quest for Cognition
Giulio Sandini, a robotics researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology, reflects on his career and discusses how robotics and neuroscience can advance the study of cognition, at an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society event.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 13, 2025
Dieter Fox - Where is RobotGPT
Dieter Fox, senior robotics research director at NVIDIA and professor at the University of Washington, reflects on robotics’ progress and the prospects for open-world robots, with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
- The Humanoid Hub· Oct 10, 2025
The Next Chapter for Atlas | The Promise of Humanoids with Mario Bollini of Boston Dynamics
Mario Bollini, who leads Atlas product management at Boston Dynamics, discusses the robot’s development and commercial prospects with the Humanoid Hub.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society· Oct 8, 2025
Debate & Panel - Robot Intelligence
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s panelists, including Yiannis Aloimonos of the University of Maryland, Vincent Van Noucke of Waymo, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi of the University of Tokyo, debate what intelligence means for robotics and how learning, embodiment, safety, and human collaboration contribute.
- RoboPapers· Oct 8, 2025
Ep#35: Reinforcement Learning with Action Chunking
UC Berkeley PhD students Colin Lee and Paul Zhao, working with Sergey Levine, discuss reinforcement learning with action chunking on RoboPapers with hosts Michael and Chris.
- Automated Podcast· Oct 8, 2025
What It Takes to Build a Real Humanoid Robot (Without the Hype)
Jeff Cardenas, co-founder of Apptronik, discusses humanoid robot pilots, commercial readiness, safety, and the path from industrial work to broader use with host Brian Heer at the Humanoid Robotic Forum.
- automation awakenings· Oct 6, 2025
5 Million Humanoids by 2030 // David Reger (NEURA Robotics)
David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics, discusses the company’s humanoid plans, physical AI, industrial uses and how robots may fit alongside human workers with the host of Automation Awakenings at NEURA’s headquarters.
- RoboPapers· Oct 3, 2025
Ep#34: RoboArena
Kyle Pertsch, a technical staff member at Physical Intelligence, and Praveen, a UC Berkeley RAIL Lab PhD student, discuss RoboArena with the RoboPapers host and audience.
- NEXT with John Koetsier· Sep 30, 2025
Robotic hands: a $50 trillion opportunity
Mike Obalonsky, partner at Cortical Ventures, discusses the engineering challenges and economic potential of robotic hands with John Koetsier on NEXT with John Koetsier.
- Galaxea· Sep 30, 2025
Robots, Data, and Foundation Models: Galaxea CTO Hang Zhao at CORL 2025 Sponsor Talk
Hang Zhao, Galaxea co-founder and CTO and Tsinghua University assistant professor, describes the company’s work on robots, datasets, and foundation models at a Galaxea sponsor talk at CoRL 2025.
- Hugging Face· Sep 29, 2025
Reachy Mini recognizes itself in the mirror
Reachy Mini, a robot from Hugging Face, demonstrates visual recognition, playful conversation, music, and chess with a host.
- Relentless· Sep 28, 2025
We'll Build 1 Million Humanoid Robots by 2028, Bernt Børnich, 1X
Bernt Børnich, founder and CEO of 1X, talks with Relentless about designing and bringing humanoid robots into people’s homes.
- RoboPapers· Sep 26, 2025
Ep#33: A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled SAILOR: Robust Imitation via Learning to Search
Gokul, a final-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, presents SEALER with coauthors Vip and a Mila PhD student, discussing how test-time search can help imitation-learning robots recover from mistakes; they join the RoboPapers hosts for a discussion.
- WSJ Podcasts· Sep 26, 2025
The Google-Backed Startup Taking on Elon Musk in Humanoid Robotics | WSJ's Bold Names
Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Austin-based Apptronik, discusses building the Apollo humanoid robot, its commercial path, and competition with Tesla and China on WSJ Podcasts’ Bold Names.
- The Humanoid Hub· Sep 25, 2025
Elon's pay package, Figure humanoids "Go-Big", "Kleptoler" Robotics, and more
Scott Walter, robotics expert and self-described humanoid bot evangelist, discusses humanoid robotics news with The Humanoid Hub host on the podcast.
- Google DeepMind· Sep 25, 2025
Gemini Robotics 1.5: Using agentic capabilities
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics team demonstrates how ALOHA and Apollo use agentic capabilities to complete household tasks by combining robot control with internet access.
- The Humanoid Hub· Sep 23, 2025
Affordable Humanoids to Drive Innovative Applications - Hao Cheng, Founder of Booster Robotics
Hao Cheng, Booster Robotics founder and CEO, discusses affordable humanoids, developer tools, and future applications with The Humanoid Hub in San Francisco.
- Articulated Robotics· Sep 22, 2025
How to make a Raspberry Pi 5 actually work
The Articulated Robotics host discusses Raspberry Pi 5 power issues for robotics, including software settings and a power expansion board.
- TCSGlobal· Sep 22, 2025
AI in the physical world: Intelligence beyond the screen
Professor K. Madhava Krishna of IIIT Hyderabad explains how robotics can combine foundation models with classical planning, drawing on research at the Robotics Research Center; a panel hosted by TCS Research and ACM India explores the wider prospects for physical AI.
- Humanoid· Sep 18, 2025
HMND SERIES E01 | How to Build a Humanoid in 7 Months
Humanoid’s founder and robotics team discuss building the HMND 01 wheeled humanoid, from its commercial purpose and design to integrating and preparing the prototype for customer trials across Boston, London, and Vancouver.
- RoboPapers· Sep 17, 2025
Ep#31: Vision in Action: Learning Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
Incoming MIT student and robotics researcher Hawi Shong discusses learning active perception from human demonstrations on RoboPapers with the host and audience.
- Toyota Research Institute· Sep 16, 2025
TRI ChargeMinder App
A Toyota Research Institute presenter introduces ChargeMinder, a research app that encourages lower-carbon EV charging through behavior-change tools.
- PALRobotics· Sep 15, 2025
PAL Robotics | Happy Programmers' Day 2025!
PAL Robotics developers and engineers Vanna Morando, Hordan Palasios, Martina, Daniel Valenthia, Safhi, and Sergi discuss their roles, motivations, robotics work, and use of AI at PAL Robotics.
- GRASP Lab· Sep 12, 2025
Fall 2025 GRASP SFI -Tairan He, Carnegie Mellon University & NVIDIA
Tairan He, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA, presents at GRASP Lab on scalable simulation learning for general-purpose humanoid skills.
- Dwarkesh Patel· Sep 12, 2025
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence and UC Berkeley professor, discusses the path to general-purpose robots with Dwarkesh Patel.
- Humanoid· Sep 12, 2025
Humanoid Alpha Release | Documentary Teaser
Humanoid’s main speaker discusses the company’s effort to build human robotics worldwide, the challenges of delivering its robot on a tight schedule, and the team’s final results.
Briefs summarise talks and interviews; timestamps open the video at that moment. Claims in a talk are the speaker's own.