Professor Quan Nguyen of USC discusses hierarchical learning and control for agile, adaptive legged robots at the MIT Robotics Seminar, where he previously worked as a postdoc.
Agility Robotics co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton explains how warehouse work can lead to humanoid robots in homes, at a Stanford event with an audience of robotics and AI researchers.
Danfei Xu, a robotics researcher and faculty member at Georgia Tech, presents his work on generative task and motion planning at a robotics seminar; the host introduces him, and no other venue is stated.
Hu, a postdoc at MIT who conducted the AnyDexGrasp research during his PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, discusses the system with the Robo Papers hosts.
Yang Gao, assistant professor at Tsinghua University and founder of Spirit AI, discusses FP3, a 3D policy for robotic manipulation, with the RoboPapers hosts.
Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas talks with John Koetsier on NEXT about Apollo’s development, manufacturing plans, the humanoid robot market, and the path to adoption.
A Symbotic team member discusses the company’s next-generation SymBot autonomous mobile robot and its speed, durability, energy use, and case handling.
Charlie Kemp, co-founder and CTO of Hello Robot, discusses what it will take for human-scale mobile manipulators such as Stretch to earn a place in homes, speaking at a CMU Robotics Institute seminar.
Ashley Dudarenok interviews Sean Shi of XPeng Robotics about humanoid robot development, factory uses, AI, deployment and safety, with a focus on China.
Harold Soh, who leads the Collaborative Learning and Adaptive Robots (CLEAR) Group, discusses ways to connect robotics with generative AI at an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society event.
Sangbae Kim, a mechanical engineering professor at MIT and leader of its Biomimetic Robotics Lab, discusses physical intelligence and human biases toward AI at a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute seminar.
Research scientists Norman and Giorgos, working on the paper at Imperial College’s Robot Learning Lab, discuss learning robot tasks from human videos with RoboPapers hosts.
At the Abundance 2025 Summit, Figure CEO Brett Adcock and investor Vinod Khosla answer audience questions with host Peter H. Diamandis about humanoid robots, adoption, policy, security and the technologies that may accelerate their impact.
Karl Pertsch, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and Stanford, discusses building scalable, generalist robot-learning systems with collaborators across the robotics community.
Leo Ma, founder and CEO of RoboForce, and Varil Hard, who leads business development, discuss outdoor industrial robots for solar installation with Sean White at Intersolar North America in San Diego.
Jason Ma, a robotics researcher at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on the paper at Google DeepMind, joins RoboPapers hosts Michael and Chris to discuss using vision-language models to assess robot task progress and data quality.
Sergey Levine, robotics researcher and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, discusses generalist robot foundation models and their training at a University of Toronto Robotics Institute seminar.
A 1X AI representative discusses the company’s collaboration with NVIDIA on NEO’s autonomy and household tasks, including a week of joint work in a home.
Toru, a UC Berkeley PhD student working with Jitendra Malik, discusses vision-based sim-to-real reinforcement learning for humanoid manipulation with RoboPapers hosts.
Chelsea Finn, co-founder of Physical Intelligence and Stanford associate professor, discusses building general-purpose robots with the No Priors hosts.
University of Tsukuba professor Fumihide Tanaka presents robotics research at the Paul G. Allen School, covering child-robot interaction, education, and social robots for older adults.
Peter H. Diamandis, host of Moonshots, and entrepreneur Salim Ismail discuss AI, robotics, education, and technology news, alongside highlights from the Abundance Summit.
My Hieu Pham, a fifth-year PhD student at NYU, discusses Robot Utility Models with the RoboPapers hosts and guests, drawing on work with NYU, Meta, and Hello Robot.
Xiaolong Wang, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego and visiting professor at NVIDIA, discusses data-driven robotics research at the 2025 Winter Robotics Colloquium hosted by the Paul G. Allen School.
Sebastian Castro, a roboticist and scientist at the Robotics and AI Institute, discusses combining task planning with learned manipulation policies at the Paul G. Allen School’s robotics colloquium.
At a live event between Austin and San Antonio, Audrow Nash interviews UT Austin PhD student Kyle Morgenstein about safer legged robots, Durin Mining operations lead David Venegas about automating mineral exploration drilling, and BotBuilt co-founder Barrett Ames about robotic home framing.
Richard Socher, founder and CEO of You.com, discusses AI models, AGI, scientific discovery, agents, and humanoid robots with Peter H. Diamandis and Salim Ismail on Moonshots.
Siddharth Karamcheti, a Stanford researcher advised by Dorsa Sadigh and Percy Liang, presents his work on language-driven interactive robotics at a Paul G. Allen School colloquium hosted by Siddharth Srinivasa.
Alfred Rizzi, chief technology officer of the Robotics and AI Institute, discusses robot capability and long-term research at a Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute seminar in Pittsburgh.
Sergey Levine, a UC Berkeley professor and Physical Intelligence co-founder, discusses the π0 robotics model with Sam Charrington on The TWIML AI Podcast.
David Reger, CEO and founder of NEURA Robotics, talks with John Koetsier on NEXT about the 4NE-1 humanoid, the company’s technology and plans for European robotics.
Peter Stone, Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin and Chief Scientist at Sony AI, discusses human-guided learning for robot navigation and manipulation at the Paul G. Allen School colloquium, introduced by Abhishek Gupta.
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