Talks and interviews

• 1:09:11

  RoboPapers· May 6, 2026

  Ep#79: Rhoda AI - Causal Video Models Are Data-Efficient Robot Policy Learners

  Tong Zhou, Eric, and Chang An of Rhoda AI discuss their Direct Video Action approach to robot control with the RoboPapers host and audience.

• 1:07:46

  Andreas Orthey· May 6, 2026

  Francesco Ferro: PAL Robotics, REEM Humanoids, Retail and Service Robotics | Andreas Orthey #9

  Francesco Ferro, CEO of PAL Robotics, discusses the company’s humanoid and service robots, its retail deployments, and how he has built the business with Andreas Orthey on the Andreas Orthey Podcast.

• 57:59

  Paul G. Allen School· May 5, 2026

  2026 Spring Robotics Colloquium: Andrea Bajcsy (Carnege Mellon University)

  Andrea Bajcsy of Carnegie Mellon University gives the 2026 Spring Robotics Colloquium at the Paul G. Allen School, discussing how to make generalist robots safer.

• 1:10:46

  RoboPapers· May 5, 2026

  Ep#78: Three Eras of Robot Learning

  Tetsuya, a former Google DeepMind robot-learning researcher, reviews three eras of robot learning and discusses the field’s direction with the RoboPapers host and audience.

• 23:19

  NEXT with John Koetsier· May 4, 2026

  Roomba CEO's new home robot: not humanoid!

  Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot and CEO of Familiar Machines and Magic, discusses the company’s home robot and its focus on companionship with John Koetsier on NEXT.

• 1:20:41

  Purdue ICON· May 2, 2026

  [ICON Spring26 Seminar] Tingnan Zhang (Google DeepMind) #ai #robotics #gemini

  Tingnan Zhang, staff research scientist and whole-body AI team lead at Google DeepMind, discusses general-purpose robotics at a Purdue ICON Spring 2026 seminar.

• 1:00:43

  EMBER Center @ UC Berkeley· May 1, 2026

  Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley): Robot Foundation Models

  Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley EECS professor and Physical Intelligence co-founder, discusses robot foundation models at an EMBER Center seminar at UC Berkeley.

• 22:11

  Aaed Musa· May 1, 2026

  I Built an Even Better Ropebot Dog

  Ayyub Musa, an engineering student and robotics creator, describes building a lower-cost, lighter capstan-driven robot dog with his senior design team.

• 1:05:18

  Robot Perception and Learning Lab· May 1, 2026

  Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning - Idan Shenfeld

  Idan Shenfeld, a fourth-year MIT PhD student advised by Pulak Garhwal, explains how self-distillation can help language models learn new tasks while retaining earlier abilities at the Robot Perception and Learning Lab.

• 20:03

  Sequoia Capital· Apr 30, 2026

  Robotics' End Game: Nvidia's Jim Fan

  Jim Fan, who leads NVIDIA’s embodied autonomy research group, presents at Sequoia Capital on how robotics could adapt AI’s scaling playbook through world action models, human data, and simulated environments.

• 5:26

  1X· Apr 30, 2026

  People of Hayward | NEO Factory

  Melvin Tolliver IV, an integration technician at 1X, and colleagues at its Hayward factory describe assembling Neo, learning on the job, and the help they hope the robot will provide at home.

• 33:00

  Sourcery with Molly O'Shea· Apr 30, 2026

  The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock

  Brett Adcock, founder of Figure, discusses humanoid robot development, manufacturing, and commercialization with Molly O’Shea on Sourcery.

• 57:25

  The Humanoid Hub· Apr 29, 2026

  We Got Ratioed by Elon Musk | Scott Walter

  Scott Walter joins The Humanoid Hub host to analyze Tesla’s Optimus hand and production plans, Figure’s robot output, and humanoid robots’ performance in the Beijing half marathon.

• 1:02:59

  RoboPapers· Apr 29, 2026

  Ep#77: DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos

  HKUST PhD student and NVIDIA research intern Shenyuan Gao, with Berkeley PhD student William Liang, discuss DreamDojo’s robot world model on RoboPapers.

• 24:02

  Bloomberg Originals· Apr 29, 2026

  Humanoid Robots and the Gap Between Hype and Reality | Bloomberg Primer

  Bloomberg Originals host and narrator, with 1X founder Bernt Børnich, UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg, GXO’s Patrick Kelleher, and other robotics, industry, and labor experts, examines humanoid robots’ potential and the hurdles they face in factories, warehouses, homes, and hospitals.

• 37:45

  CAMPS Video Library· Apr 28, 2026

  Leading Edge Robotics Innovation with Arsalan Mousavian of NVIDIA

  Arsalan Mousavian, senior robotics research scientist at NVIDIA, discusses robotics research and manufacturing applications with Norman at the Innovation Forum.

• 59:31

  CAMPS Video Library· Apr 28, 2026

  From Simulation to Reality Advancements in Robotics with NVIDIA's Arsalan Mousavian

  Arsalan Mousavian, senior robotics research scientist at NVIDIA, explains simulation-trained robotics and AI at the August Innovation Forum with host Norman and audience members.

• 1:02:16

  Paul G. Allen School· Apr 28, 2026

  Spring Robotics Colloquium: Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (Cornell)

  Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, who leads the EmPRISE Lab at Cornell University, discusses building personalized physical caregiving robots, drawing on work with users, caregivers, and occupational therapists at Cornell and UW.

• 21:47

  WIRED· Apr 28, 2026

  Robotics Professor Answers Robot Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

  Aaron Ames, a professor of mechanical engineering, answers audience questions about robotics on WIRED’s “Robotics Support.”

• 1:31

  Humanoid· Apr 28, 2026

  Inside Hannover Messe 2026: Humanoid Alpha Working in Real Factory Workflows

  A Humanoid representative discusses the company’s Level Up technology and factory workflows at Hannover Messe 2026, exhibiting with Siemens.

• 1:14:07

  Latent Space· Apr 27, 2026

  The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers, Applied Intuition

  Applied Intuition co-founders Peter Ludwig, CTO, and Qasar Younis, CEO, join Latent Space hosts Alessio Fanelli and swyx to discuss building AI for vehicles and other physical machines.

• 48:22

  RoboPapers· Apr 27, 2026

  Ep#76: OmniXtreme: Breaking the Generality Barrier in High-Dynamic Humanoid Control

  Yunshen Wang and Shaohang Zhu, paper authors from BIGAI and collaborating institutions including Unitree Robotics, discuss OmniXtreme’s approach to general high-dynamic humanoid control with RoboPapers hosts and audience.

• 57:15

  GRASP Lab· Apr 25, 2026

  Spring 2026 GRASP Seminar - Glen Berseth, Université de Montréal

  Glen Berseth, assistant professor at Université de Montréal and Mila, discusses using pretrained models, reinforcement learning, and search to improve embodied control at the Spring 2026 GRASP Seminar, hosted by GRASP Lab.

• 56:30

  GRASP Lab· Apr 24, 2026

  Spring 2026 GRASP SFI - Tom Zhang, Daxo Robotics

  Tom Zhang of Daxo Robotics discusses robotic hand design, the company’s technology and its path from student research and agricultural products to a dexterous hand at a GRASP Lab talk at Penn.

• 3:45

  Galbot· Apr 23, 2026

  All Data. Any Quality. Fully Utilized by one Latent World Action Model

  Galbot presents LDA, a world action foundation model for training robots with embodied data of different quality levels.

• 1:01:20

  RoboPapers· Apr 23, 2026

  Ep#75: TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics

  Shay, a fifth-year PhD student at the University of Washington and student researcher at AI2, and Cole Harrison, a machine learning engineer at Amazon and AI2 collaborator, discuss TOPReward with the RoboPapers host.

• 3:23

  Astrobotic· Apr 23, 2026

  Astrobotic Breaks Records for Hot Firing Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE)

  An Astrobotic representative discusses the Chakram rotating detonation engine, its test results, and potential uses in the company’s vehicles and lunar landers.

• 10:29

  Skild· Apr 23, 2026

  Robot Cooking Eggs -- Live Demo

  Skild’s presenters demonstrate a robot cooking omelets and discuss how its vision based model handles retries, heat, and precise manipulation.

• 29:48

  NVIDIA· Apr 22, 2026

  One Brain, Any Robot: Skild AI's Skild Brain Explained | NVIDIA AI Podcast Ep. 295

  Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, Skild co-founders and robotics researchers, explain Skild’s general-purpose robot brain on the NVIDIA AI Podcast with host Noah Kravitz.

• 30:59

  Skyentific· Apr 20, 2026

  Secrets of Walking Robot (NVIDIA Isaac Lab and Isaac Lab Arena)

  Skyentific’s presenter explains how they built and trained a bipedal robot with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, transferred its policy to hardware, and explored Isaac Lab Arena.

• 46:59

  RoboPapers· Apr 20, 2026

  Ep#74: Weave Robotics

  Khan, co-founder of Weave Robotics, discusses building and deploying home laundry-folding robots with Chris and JFA on RoboPapers.

• 46:49

  Robot Perception and Learning Lab· Apr 19, 2026

  Learning Representations for Generalizable Robot Actions -- Congyue Deng

  MIT postdoc Congyue Deng, speaking for the Robot Perception and Learning Lab, discusses how visual and action representations can help robots generalize across objects and tasks.

• 1:03:02

  The Humanoid Hub· Apr 19, 2026

  Tesla’s Optimus Is Finally Showing Its Hand: The Details Are Surprising

  Host speaks with Scott Walter, a roboticist known for humanoid hardware analysis, on The Humanoid Hub about Tesla Optimus hand patents and what they reveal about the hand’s design.

• 44:21

  RoboPapers· Apr 18, 2026

  Ep#73: VideoManip: Dexterous Manipulation Policies from RGB Human Videos via 3D Hand-Object Traject

  Hongyi Chen, a PhD researcher at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, explains VideoManip on RoboPapers with host Mike, showing how RGB human video can train dexterous robot manipulation.

• 51:28

  GRASP Lab· Apr 17, 2026

  Spring 2026 GRASP SFI - Chuning Zhu, University of Washington

  Chuning Zhu, a robotics researcher at the University of Washington, presents research on scaling robot learning with world models at the Spring 2026 GRASP SFI seminar hosted by GRASP Lab.

• 35:02

  Robot Talk· Apr 17, 2026

  Dexterous robot hands - interview with Rich Walker

  Rich Walker, director of Shadow Robot Company, discusses dexterous robot hands, their design trade-offs, and the challenges of bringing robotics into practical use with Robot Talk host Claire Asher.

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