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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Ask DoorDash Orders Hit a New Restaurant. In Ten Years There Will Be More Dashers, Not Fewer.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCo-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang tell Sarah Guo how a conversational ordering interface moved DoorDash's hardest metric, why they built a 300-pound delivery robot in-house, and why autonomy means more human riders, not less.
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Sequoia Capital· Jul 7, 2026PodcastThe drone is 15% of Zipline: 140 million miles, zero incidentsKeller Rinaudo Cliffton and Eric Watson explain why the aircraft is the small part of an automated logistics system now cheaper than a car.
58:27ENSequoia Capital· Mar 24, 2026PodcastEven a dumber AI can win science if it never leaves the labGinkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly tells Sequoia why autonomous labs, not smarter models, will change how experimental science gets done.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 30, 2025PodcastA hundred experiments a day, and the valley of death in materialsHost Nathan LabenzRadical AI’s co-founders tell Nathan Labenz how a closed loop of frontier models and a self-driving lab is meant to collapse a forty-year materials cycle into less than a decade.
1:48:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 16, 2025Podcast$500, 2,000 Steps, and a Vending Machine: Grok 4 Profited, Claude Called the FBIHost Nathan LabenzAndon Labs put frontier models in charge of simulated and real vending machines to see what breaks when nobody is in the loop.
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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.
1:50:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 12, 2024PodcastTwenty-Eight Days After GPT-4, an AI Designed and Ran a Chemistry ExperimentHost Nathan LabenzGabe Gomes and his Carnegie Mellon students built Coscientist, a language-model agent that plans, codes, and executes real experiments on a remote cloud lab.
1:40:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 4, 2023PodcastThirty thousand voltage updates a second: inside Skydio’s autonomy stackHost Nathan LabenzHayk Martiros walks Nathan Labenz through a two-pound drone that sees in every direction, runs more than ten neural nets on board, and will not be weaponized.
50:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 1, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersCheap Volume Beats Gold-Plated Jets: Anduril’s Brian Schimpf on AI and DefenseHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Anduril CEO on Lattice, a school-bus-sized autonomous submarine, why Ukraine made fighter attrition unworkable, and how you actually sell a capability to the Pentagon.
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.
1:29:31ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 30, 2023Podcast130,000 Teleop Demos: Google's GPT Playbook for RobotsHost Nathan LabenzKeerthana Gopalakrishnan of Google Robotics tells Nathan Labenz how RT-1, SayCan, and PaLM-E turn language-model scaling into kitchen-ready mobile manipulators.
50:12ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Drone Is Only 15 Percent of the ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilZipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton on why blood delivery in Rwanda, not a cooler airplane, built the world's largest commercial autonomous system.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 28