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.
Lee Yi, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University and coauthor of R2S2, discusses whole-body humanoid reaching and teleoperation with the RoboPapers hosts.
Hobbyist robotics and machine learning practitioner Ilya Lashanka joins RoboPapers to discuss affordable home robotics and his experiments with LeRobot, zero-shot LLM control, and lightweight learned policies.
Joel Jung, a research scientist at NVIDIA's Gear Lab, discusses DreamGen and training robot policies from video world models with the RoboPapers hosts.
Scott Walter, a robotics expert, joins The Humanoid Hub host to analyze Tesla Optimus hardware, speculate about Gen 3, and discuss production, training data, and scaling.
Mena, a PhD student, and Han, an incoming Stanford PhD student, discuss DexUMI, their framework for collecting dexterous manipulation demonstrations with a human-worn exoskeleton, on RoboPapers with the episode hosts.
Michael Cho, founder of FrodoBots and Ultimate Fighting Bots, talks with The Humanoid Hub about robot entertainment, embodied AI research, and the BitRobot Network.
Dhanush, CEO of Clone Robotics, discusses the design and goals of the Protoclone humanoid with Anastasi In Tech in Wrocław, Poland.
Paul Nadan, a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robot Mechanics Lab, explains how the LORIS robot uses microspines and lightweight mechanics to climb rough surfaces, including potential lunar and Martian terrain.
Automatic Addison presents the World Robot Conference 2025 in Beijing, showing robots for service, research, industry, movement, and performance.
Brent Pierce, CEO of Kinesis Robots and a robotics entrepreneur with experience building humanoids, talks with Jon on NEXT with John Koetsier about whether robots need legs and what will make them practical.
PRO ROBOTS’ main presenter covers humanoid, service, industrial, and healthcare robots at China’s 2025 World Robot Conference, with demonstrations and interviews from exhibitors.
PhD students Mena and Han, authors of DexUMI, explain their dexterous manipulation data collection and policy learning work on RoboPapers with the host and audience.
Brennand Pierce, a robotics entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and a cofounder of a current robotics company, discusses finding customers, building viable robot products, and automating factory work with Ilir Aliu on 22Astronauts.
Alfie, host at The AI Nexus, discusses WIRobotics’ ALLEX humanoid robot and its dexterous hands, potential uses, and deployment challenges.
A Galbot representative discusses the company’s autonomous gold-medal performance at the World Humanoid Robot Games and its pharmacy deployments in Beijing.
Bernt Børnich, founder and CEO of 1X, talks with Going Direct’s host about humanoid robots, robot learning, safety, manufacturing and 1X’s plans for Neo.
Peter H. Diamandis talks with 1X Technologies founder and CEO Bernt Børnich and investor Dave Blundin at 1X’s Palo Alto facility about building humanoid robots for homes, learning through real-world use, and the manufacturing and safety challenges ahead.
Bernt Børnich, founder of 1X, discusses building humanoid robots for the home, drawing on the company’s work and experience as a founder.
Jenk Infang, head of RealMan Robotics’ humanoid robot data training center, introduces its Beijing facility and explains how it collects data to train humanoid robots for household and workplace tasks.
An ESA and DLR team member explains how astronaut Johnny Kim controlled robotic teams from the International Space Station during the Surface Avatar experiment.
Sang, a research scientist at BIGAI, and Isha, a BIGAI researcher, discuss CLONE, their whole-body humanoid teleoperation system, on RoboPapers with hosts Michael and Chris.
Jérôme Monceaux, founder of Enchanted Tools, discusses the design and potential healthcare uses of the Miroki and Mirokai robots in an IEEE Spectrum interview with a host.
Rich Walker, director of Shadow Robot Company, presents at Humanoids Summit on designing durable, sensor-rich dexterous hands for robot learning and humanoid applications.
Toyota Research Institute interns discuss their work across robotics, vehicle decarbonization, and human-centered AI, and how mentorship and collaboration support their projects at TRI.
Yan Han, an author of FALCON and an applied scientist intern with Amazon Frontier AI, discusses force-aware humanoid control with Flor and the RoboPapers audience.
Mohan, a research engineer at Skild AI, and Tony, a CMU master’s student, discuss DexWild with the RoboPapers hosts, drawing on work with Deepak at CMU.
Grace Brown, founder of Andromeda, and Maria Piechnik, co-founder of Wandelbots, discuss how robots are advancing, where they may help people, and what limits they still face with Ella Al-Shamahi on BBC World Service’s The Conversation.
Jan Liphardt, founder of OpenMind, talks with The Humanoid Hub host at the host’s San Francisco office about open-source robotics software, humanoid use cases, and modular AI systems.
Chelsea Finn, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, discusses building general-purpose robots at a Y Combinator event.
Luca, CTO at PAL Robotics, Sai Kishar, senior robotics engineer at PAL Robotics, Carlos Vivas, chief business officer at PAL Robotics, and Francisco Martín Rico, professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, discuss ROS 2, open-source robotics, and community involvement.
Spencer Wang, a robotics product manager at NVIDIA, discusses industrial robotics and automation with Helena Schwank of Hexagon.
Hu Jun, a PhD student at UMass Amherst, discusses TesserAct, a 4D embodied world model, with RoboPapers hosts and Chris.
Arthur and Hongsuk, UC Berkeley PhD students and coauthors of VideoMimic, discuss learning contextual humanoid control from human video on RoboPapers with the host and audience.
Aaed Musa, an independent robotics builder, explains how he designed and tested Cara, a 31-pound robot dog whose joints use rope-driven capstan drives.
Ethan Hong, a rising junior at Geffen Academy at UCLA and robotics lab intern, discusses Food Angel, his food delivery robot for people experiencing homelessness, at the UR2025 banquet.
Eric Jang, VP of AI at 1X, discusses home robotics, AI models, and data strategy with Devang at 1X’s Palo Alto office on The Humanoid Hub.
Briefs summarise talks and interviews; timestamps open the video at that moment. Claims in a talk are the speaker's own.
