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8:37:34ENThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
1:43:47ENYou 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.
2:18:25ENGrow Everything: Neri Oxman on Giving Nature a VoteGuest Neri Oxman · Host Lex FridmanThe designer-scientist who left MIT to build OXMAN talks silkworm pavilions, bees in space, and why the end of human agency might be the start of nature's.
2:07:04ENThe Ribosome Already Solved Digital ManufacturingGuest Neil Gershenfeld · Host Lex FridmanNeil Gershenfeld tells Lex Fridman why Turing separated the head from the tape, how fab labs are the personal-computer moment for making things, and what it would take to grow a civilization from about twenty parts.
2:27:58ENIt 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.
1:59:13ENSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
5:15:44ENThe Falcon 9 Cannot Hover. That Is Why the Landing Looks Impossible.Guest Tim Dodd · Host Lex FridmanEveryday Astronaut Tim Dodd walks Lex Fridman from Falcon 1 to Starship, and explains why a rocket that is always too powerful to hover still sticks the landing.
3:03:33ENA Robot Is Whatever Still Has MagicGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanKate Darling tells Lex Fridman why grocery-store Marty is a real-life Clippy, why animal history is a better guide than humanoid fantasy, and what the Epstein scandal revealed about MIT.
3:00:21ENCut Off a Planarian's Head. The New Brain Still RemembersGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanMichael Levin argues that DNA only builds hardware, bioelectric networks store body plans, and frog skin cells can become robots that evolution never designed.
2:36:21ENA Smile Is Not Happiness: Rana el Kaliouby on Emotion AI and the Empathy CrisisGuest Rana el Kaliouby · Host Lex FridmanThe Affectiva founder and Smart Eye deputy CEO talks with Lex Fridman about teaching machines to read faces, sensing drivers inside the cabin, and why she is proudest of the people her company grew.
1:09:10ENThe Same Snapdragon That Flies on Mars Powers a Galaxy PhoneGuest Cristiano Amon · Host Lex FridmanQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talks with Lex Fridman about 5G, Snapdragon, cars, the chip shortage, and how to map the border of your own competence.
1:46:49ENAriel 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.
1:50:07ENBombing Is Data: Mark Normand on Love, Comedy, and Eating Shit EarlyGuest Mark Normand · Host Lex FridmanStand-up comedian Mark Normand talks with Lex Fridman about keeping love in shape, growing up the odd kid in New Orleans, why open-mic hell is comedy’s first level, and when a joke is finally done.
2:31:48ENA Car That Cannot Drive Itself Will Be About as Useful as a HorseGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanIn a Lex Fridman conversation built around Tesla Autopilot, Elon Musk argues that every driver input is an error, that today’s hardware is already enough for full self-driving, and that watching the human will soon matter less than making the system safer than a person.
2:15:27ENHe Took People Down in 53 of 55 MMA Rounds. Then Two Clips Defined Him.Guest Ben Askren · Host Lex FridmanBen Askren talks with Lex Fridman about scoring fights, chasing hard matches, building a wrestling robot, and why he says he never proved he was the best.
3:14:14ENFour Joints, Eighty Thousand Pounds: Boris Sofman on Cozmo and WaymoGuest Boris Sofman · Host Lex FridmanAnki's co-founder on saturating a few channels of expression, why a beloved robot company still died, and how the same constraint mindset now runs Waymo's trucks.
3:12:17ENYou Better Already Have Everything You Ever WantedGuest Steve Viscelli · Host Lex FridmanA former long-haul driver turned Penn sociologist walks Lex Fridman through how trucking fell from a golden-age trade to a last-resort job, and the six ways robots might finish the work.
2:24:52ENJudge 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.
2:51:33ENThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceGuest Wojciech Zaremba · Host Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
1:39:29ENElectric engines, 20-nanometer cones, and why Natalya Bailey would skip the first thousand on MarsGuest Natalya Bailey · Host Lex FridmanThe Accion Systems founder walks Lex Fridman from ion physics to orbital debris, chip-made thrusters, and the kind of culture that oozes out of a founder.
2:23:10ENBuilding 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.
2:48:46ENLet 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.
1:37:31ENThe Robot That Brought the Beer Was Being TeleoperatedGuest Sergey Levine · Host Lex FridmanSergey Levine tells Lex Fridman why hardware is almost closed, why common sense has to be lived, and why offline reinforcement learning is the missing on-ramp from logs to robots that keep getting better.
4:08:58ENThe Man Who Named AGI Wants Superintelligence Raised on CompassionGuest Ben Goertzel · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Goertzel for four hours about OpenCog, Sophia, SingularityNET, and why a bigger neural net is not a mind.
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