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Lex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
2:32:00ENLex Fridman· Aug 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Cube Inside a Sphere, Right Between Two Super HornetsGuest Ryan Graves · Host Lex FridmanFormer Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves tells Lex Fridman how unexplained objects filled East Coast training airspace after a radar upgrade, and why a near-collision made it a safety problem the system still cannot process.
1:46:49ENLex Fridman· Mar 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAriel Ekblaw on Self-Assembling Habitats and Why the Real Space Cities Will FloatGuest Ariel Ekblaw · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT Space Exploration Initiative director talks swarm tiles, lunar ants, and why Mars is a research station rather than a backup Earth.
2:24:52ENLex Fridman· Sep 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGuest Rodney Brooks · Host Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
2:23:10ENLex Fridman· Dec 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBuilding a Driver, Not a Copilot: Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on Fully Driverless CarsGuest Dmitri Dolgov · Host Lex FridmanFrom a 3 a.m. parking-lot planner at Stanford to a public robotaxi in Phoenix, Dolgov tells Lex Fridman why driver assist and a real driver are different products.
2:48:46ENLex Fridman· Aug 9, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLet Physics Walk: Russ Tedrake on Underactuated Robots, Contact, and Barefoot CommutesGuest Russ Tedrake · Host Lex FridmanMIT’s Russ Tedrake talks with Lex Fridman about gravity-powered walkers, a dead trout that swims upstream, why contact still breaks classical control, and what the DARPA Robotics Challenge taught him about testing.
1:22:51ENLex Fridman· May 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDensity, Not Demos: Sertac Karaman on Robots That Fly and DriveGuest Sertac Karaman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist and Optimus Ride co-founder on why sharing space with people is harder than building the machine, and why flying at transportation scale is still the tougher problem.
1:39:57ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPeople Say They Want Perfect Robots. They Trust the Ones That Push BackGuest Ayanna Howard · Host Lex FridmanAyanna Howard on human-robot interaction, the ethics of safety-critical code, and why a little imperfection is what actually earns trust.
39:33ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersMars is not Plan B: Dava Newman on spacesuits, autonomy, and Spaceship EarthGuest Dava Newman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT Apollo professor and former NASA deputy administrator on Magellan’s crew, mechanical counterpressure, and why the next decade belongs to Earth.
56:47ENLex Fridman· Sep 8, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Vijay Kumar Refuses to Call Them DronesGuest Vijay Kumar · Host Lex FridmanThe Penn roboticist on swarm design, true autonomy, and why batteries — not algorithms — still limit the sky.
1:13:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLockheed Martin's CTO on Autonomy, the Moon, and the Culture of Not Getting It WrongGuest Keoki Jackson · Host Lex FridmanKeoki Jackson tells Lex Fridman why going back to the Moon is the easy part—and why proving a learning system will still do the right thing is not.
1:01:24ENLex Fridman· Mar 12, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLeslie Kaelbling: You Buy the Ticket Before You Can Plan the AirportGuest Leslie Kaelbling · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist tells Lex Fridman why abstractions, belief-space control, and built-in bias matter more than picking a tribe of symbols or neural nets.
24:22ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, First Principles and the Road to Self-Driving: Jim Keller on Working with Elon MuskGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanThe veteran chip architect explains why he thinks autonomous driving is a tractable engineering problem, how Tesla's cost constraints shaped its hardware, and what he took from Musk's way of thinking.