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Automated with Brian Heater

Get a direct line to the biggest names and brightest minds in robotics, Physical 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 that are shaping how we live and work.

Episodes

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Rick Faulk on Locus Robotics, Warehouse Automation, and Physical AI

24 Jun 2026
44m
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Aya Durbin on Turning Atlas Into a Real Industrial Robot

17 Jun 2026
46m
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Humanoid robotics development requires balancing long-term visionary goals with immediate, pragmatic industrial applications to ensure commercial viability. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas project targets 2028 for initial customer pilots, focusing on complex, high-turnover tasks that traditional automation struggles to address....

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Andrew Barry on Why Dexterity Is the Next Breakthrough in Physical AI

10 Jun 2026
44m
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Daniel Rausch on How Alexa Was Rebuilt for the AI Era

03 Jun 2026
49m
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Daniela Rus on Humanoid Robots, Physical AI, and the Future of Robotics

27 May 2026
50m
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Matthew Johnson-Roberson on Why Physical AI Still Has a Missing Piece

20 May 2026
57m
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Sergey Levine on Why Real-World Data Will Define Physical AI

13 May 2026
46m
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Colin Angle on Why Home Robots Failed Before and Why AI Changes Everything

06 May 2026
50m
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Martial Hebert on Why Self-Driving Cars Took So Long and What Everyone Got Wrong About AI

29 Apr 2026
47m
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Bren Pierce on Why Humanoid Robots Are Overhyped and What Actually Works in Robotics

22 Apr 2026
56m
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Ali Kashani on Last Mile Delivery, Robotics at Scale, and the Future of Autonomous Delivery

15 Apr 2026
45m
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Zachary Jackowski on Generalization in Robotics and the Reality of Deploying Robots in the Real World

08 Apr 2026
37m
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Ranjay Krishna on Why Robots Still Fail in the Real World and the Data Problem Holding Them Back

01 Apr 2026
42m
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Erik Nieves on Why Humanoid Robots Are Failing the Most Important Test

25 Mar 2026
49m
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iRobot CEO Gary Cohen on Turnarounds, Feature Wars, and the Future of Roomba

18 Mar 2026
43m
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Mehul Nariyawala on Why Home Robots Must Be Vision-First and “Delegate, Not Collaborate”

11 Mar 2026
52m
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Rob Cochran on Shipping a Developer-First Humanoid at Fauna Robotics

04 Mar 2026
48m
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Péter Fankhauser on Building a Fleet of Autonomous Robots at ANYbotics

25 Feb 2026
45m
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Building Safe, Scalable Robots at GM With Mikell Taylor

18 Feb 2026
38m
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How Democratizing Access to Robotics will Benefit All: Intrinsic’s Brian Gerkey on Open-Source Software

11 Feb 2026
48m
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