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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 3, 2026PodcastHumanoids Outran Usain Bolt. DeepMind Still Scores Robotics as GPT-2Host Nathan LabenzGoogle DeepMind's Gemini Robotics lead on why sprinting is easy, frying an egg is hard, and one brain should drive any body.
1:36ENWhy Humanoid Robots Can Move Beyond Human LimitsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains why joints that rotate beyond human ranges could help robots work in factories.
1:55:02ENCognitive 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.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 18, 2024Podcasto1 Is a New Generation — and the Day AGI Arrives Will Feel BoringHost Jacob EffronOpenAI’s former chief research officer Bob McGrew on why o1 is a 100x leap, why agents stall on reliability, and why AGI may land as office tedium rather than a single dramatic moment.
1:50:08ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 7, 2024PodcastWaymo's Injury Rate Is Five Times Lower. It Still Loses to a Lyft.Host Nathan LabenzHuman drivers average one fatal crash per 100 million miles — and that bar still defines the self-driving debate.
1:16:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 11, 2024PodcastScooping Food Into Boxes Is 70 Percent of Plant LaborHost Nathan LabenzChef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria on 20 million plated meals, a foundation model for food, and why the kitchen may leave the house.
16:06ENAI News: Video Generation, Apple Intelligence, Robotics and DeepSeek Coder V2Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of launches and research, from Luma and Runway to NVIDIA, robotics and coding models.
0:53ENNVIDIA’s Computex Keynote: Digital Humans, Weather and RoboticsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman briefly reviews Jensen Huang’s announcements on AI-generated characters, weather modeling, Blackwell hardware and factory robots.
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.
1:01:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 9, 2023PodcastThe $300 million Gates refused, and the $10 billion that went to OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzRobert Scoble and Ben Tossell talk with Nathan Labenz about AI scouting, Apple's still-sleeping neural engines, and whether incumbents or AI-first startups will win.
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.
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Lex Fridman· Dec 6, 2017PodcastThe Race Car and the Rulebook: Chris Gerdes on Automated Vehicle SafetyHost Lex FridmanA Stanford engineer and former DOT innovation chief explains how autonomous racing, voluntary safety guidance, and data sharing could shape safer self-driving cars.
58:46ENLex FridmanPodcastCaging the Neural Network: How Aptiv Thinks About Safe Self-DrivingHost Lex FridmanAptiv Autonomous Mobility's Karl Iagnemma and Oscar Beijbom explain why end-to-end learning is hard to trust in cars, and show how PointPillars and nuScenes push lidar perception forward.
1:23:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastFrom GPT-2 to GPT-3 Moments in Robotics: Six DeepMind Papers on Bridging Robots and the InternetHost Nathan LabenzKeerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao walk through RT-2, RT-X, RT-Trajectory, AutoRT, Learning to Learn Faster and PIVOT, and say what is still missing for general-purpose robots.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Great Robots Fail as Businesses, and What iRobot Got RightHost Lex FridmaniRobot co-founder Colin Angle explains why so many robotics companies collapse and how cost, vision and a clear user need shaped the Roomba.
1:07:22ENLex FridmanPodcastCars That Drive Empty: Emilio Frazzoli on Why Self-Driving Needs Rules, Not Just DataHost Lex FridmanThe nuTonomy CTO explains why full autonomy and shared fleets are where the value lies, and why the hardest open problem is deciding how vehicles should behave.
1:10:19ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Robot That Folded the Laundry: Physical Intelligence’s Three FrontiersHost Jacob EffronKarol Hausman and Danny Driess explain how robot foundation models moved from coded primitives to web-scale pretraining, and why performance is now the hard gate.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastIntelligence for Heavy Machines: Qasar Younis on Why Physical AI Will Change Farms, Mines and Roads FirstHost Lenny RachitskyThe Applied Intuition co-founder explains why the biggest near-term AI impact is in vehicles and industrial machines, and shares the values, reading habits and management philosophy behind a quiet $15 billion company.
1:13:18ENLex FridmanPodcastHuman-Centered or Fully Autonomous? Lex Fridman's Case for Collaboration Between Driver and MachineHost Lex FridmanLecture 2 of MIT's 2018 course on deep learning for self-driving cars covers the two paths to autonomy, how sensors compare, who is building what, and where deep learning can help.
1:18:48ENLex FridmanPodcastData Movement, Not Math: How to Make Deep Learning Fit on Robots and PhonesHost Lex FridmanMIT professor Vivienne Sze explains why moving data dominates the energy cost of neural networks and how co-designing hardware and algorithms can cut it by orders of magnitude.
1:05:15ENLex FridmanPodcastTaming the Long Tail: How Waymo Builds a Self-Driving FactoryHost Lex FridmanWaymo principal scientist Drago Anguelov explains how machine learning infrastructure, hybrid design and smart simulated agents tackle the rare events of autonomous driving.
1:27:15ENLex FridmanPodcastPolicy Gradients vs. Q-Learning: John Schulman's Field Guide to Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanOpenAI's John Schulman walks through the core methods of deep RL, from the score function estimator to TRPO and DQN, and says when each one is worth using.
17:35ENLex FridmanPodcastHands Off the Wheel in San Diego: A Comma Two Demo Drive and a Tour of comma.ai's Hardware ShopHost Lex FridmanAfter their podcast conversation, George Hotz takes Lex Fridman on an openpilot drive and then through the comma.ai offices, dashboards, assembly line and compute cluster.
1:13:22ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Second 90%: What It Really Takes to Put Deep Learning on a Driverless CarHost Lex FridmanWaymo's Sacha Arnoud walks MIT students through Waymo's history, its perception stack, and the industrial-scale labeling, compute and testing behind it.Load moreShowing 24 of 34