
Chris Urmson on Aurora and the future of autonomous vehicles
In episode 18 of The Robot Brains Podcast our host Pieter Abbeel meets Chris Urmson. Chris is one of the world-leading pioneers in self-driving. He led the Google self-driving project for several year...
28 Juli 202144min

Peter Puchwein explains KNAPP's robotics-enhanced vision for the future of the logistics industry
In episode 17 of our host Pieter Abbeel meets Peter Puchwein. Peter is the Vice President of Innovation at KNAPP, one of the world market leaders in warehouse logistics and automation. During their in...
21 Juli 20211h 4min

Matanya Horowitz explains how AMP Robotics is building a waste free world
In Ep.16 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel sits down with AMP Robotics CEO and founder, Matanya Horowitz. Matanya is the founder and CEO of AMP Robotics, an industrial AI robotics company usi...
14 Juli 202155min

Anca Dragan on why Asimov's three laws of robotics need updating
On Episode 15 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel is joined by Anca Dragan. Anca is a professor at UC Berkeley, where she is the director of the Interact Lab where she is working on the goal of...
7 Juli 20211h 41min

Mike Volpi on why VCs are investing record amounts into AI startups
In episode 14 of The Robot Brains Podcast we sit down and chat with Mike Volpi of Index Ventures. Index is one of the largest and best known VC firms in Silicon Valley. Mike joined Index Ventures in 2...
30 Juni 20211h 24min

Missy Cummings asks: should the US Military use AI weapons?
In episode thirteen of The Robot Brains Podcast we meet Mary "Missy" Cummings, former US Airforce fighter pilot and Professor at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Missy tells us her inc...
23 Juni 20211h 26min

Charles Isbell makes the case for more ethical AI
In episode twelve of The Robot Brains Podcast we are joined by Charles Isbell Jr, professor and Dean of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After starting his career as an...
16 Juni 20211h 23min

Alison Gopnik on the different (and similar) ways robots and children learn
In episode eleven of The Robot Brains Podcast we are joined by Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of the "Mind and Matter" science column for the Wall Street Journal. She...
9 Juni 20211h 34min



















