Automated with Brian Heater

By Brian Heater

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Get a direct line to the biggest names and brightest minds in robotics, AI, and automation. Automated with Brian Heater brings you long-form conversations and unfiltered insights into how we got here, where we’re going, and what’s behind the technologies impacting how we live and work. 



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Episode Date
Yoel Fink on Education, Invention, and Asking Better Questions
Jul 08, 2026
Russ Tedrake on Robotics, Physical AI, and the Future of Work
Jul 01, 2026
Rick Faulk on Locus Robotics, Warehouse Automation, and Physical AI
Jun 24, 2026
Aya Durbin on Turning Atlas Into a Real Industrial Robot
Jun 17, 2026
Andrew Barry on Why Dexterity Is the Next Breakthrough in Physical AI
Jun 10, 2026
Daniel Rausch on How Alexa Was Rebuilt for the AI Era
Jun 03, 2026
Daniela Rus on Humanoid Robots, Physical AI, and the Future of Robotics
May 27, 2026
Matthew Johnson-Roberson on Why Physical AI Still Has a Missing Piece
May 20, 2026
Sergey Levine on Why Real-World Data Will Define Physical AI
May 13, 2026
Colin Angle on Why Home Robots Failed Before and Why AI Changes Everything
May 06, 2026
Martial Hebert on Why Self-Driving Cars Took So Long and What Everyone Got Wrong About AI
Apr 29, 2026
Bren Pierce on Why Humanoid Robots Are Overhyped and What Actually Works in Robotics
Apr 22, 2026
Ali Kashani on Last Mile Delivery, Robotics at Scale, and the Future of Autonomous Delivery
Apr 15, 2026
Zachary Jackowski on Generalization in Robotics and the Reality of Deploying Robots in the Real World
Apr 08, 2026
Ranjay Krishna on Why Robots Still Fail in the Real World and the Data Problem Holding Them Back
Apr 01, 2026
Erik Nieves on Why Humanoid Robots Are Failing the Most Important Test
Mar 25, 2026
iRobot CEO Gary Cohen on Turnarounds, Feature Wars, and the Future of Roomba
Mar 18, 2026
Mehul Nariyawala on Why Home Robots Must Be Vision-First and “Delegate, Not Collaborate”
Mar 11, 2026
Rob Cochran on Shipping a Developer-First Humanoid at Fauna Robotics
Mar 04, 2026
Péter Fankhauser on Building a Fleet of Autonomous Robots at ANYbotics
Feb 25, 2026
Building Safe, Scalable Robots at GM With Mikell Taylor
Feb 18, 2026
How Democratizing Access to Robotics will Benefit All: Intrinsic’s Brian Gerkey on Open-Source Software
Feb 11, 2026
When AI Leaves the Demo Stage: Kence Anderson on What Lasts
Feb 04, 2026
Colin Angle on iRobot, Regulation, and the Future of Physical AI
Jan 28, 2026
Eric Danziger on the Reality Gap in Robotics and AI
Jan 21, 2026
Waymo’s Vincent Vanhoucke on Embodied AI and Robotics
Jan 14, 2026
Rohit Sharma on Venture Capital, Robotics, and Long-Term Thinking
Jan 07, 2026
From Diffusion Policy to Dexterity: Robotics in Review with Erin McColl of Toyota Research Institute
Dec 29, 2025
Designing the Machines of Disney’s Avatar with Ben Procter
Dec 17, 2025
How Robots Fail, Learn, and Improve: A Conversation with Holly Yanco
Dec 10, 2025
The Robot Ending Loneliness in Aged Care: Grace Brown on Building Abi
Dec 03, 2025
Dusty Robotics CEO Tessa Lau on Reinventing Construction Through Automation
Nov 26, 2025
Dianne Eldridge on AI, Automation, and the Future of Work
Nov 19, 2025
Ken Goldberg: Solving Robotics’ Hardest Problems: Dexterity, Data, and Design
Nov 12, 2025
Helen Greiner on Building iRobot and the Future of Home Automation
Nov 05, 2025
PSYONIC’s Aadeel Akhtar on the Future of Bionics, Robotics, and Accessibility
Oct 29, 2025
Building Robots That Work for People: Amazon’s Playbook for Scaled Automation
Oct 22, 2025
Physical AI, Play, and the Path Beyond Humanoids with Brad Porter of Cobot
Oct 15, 2025
Designing the “Good Robot”: Inside Apptronik’s Vision for Humanoids
Oct 08, 2025
Universal Robots’ Roberta Nelson Shea on Balancing Safety and Productivity in Automation
Oct 01, 2025
Rodney Brooks on Robotics, AI, and the Future of Automation
Sep 24, 2025
Deepu Talla: Building the Future of Robotics at NVIDIA
Sep 17, 2025
Melonee Wise on Humanoid Robots, Safety Tradeoffs, and Real-World Deployment
Sep 17, 2025
Marc Raibert: Half a Century of Innovation, and Still Looking Ahead
Sep 17, 2025
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Sep 10, 2025