The Thinking Machine

What’s This Podcast
About?

We’re entering a new era in robotics. One where the bottleneck isn’t just algorithms, it’s the entire stack. The foundation models, the data pipelines, the simulation environments, the training infrastructure. All of it has to come together for robots to move from demos to deployment. The Thinking Machine Podcast goes deep with the researchers, founders, and engineers working across this stack. That means conversations with teams building robotics foundation models like Groot and Gemini Robotics, architects of world models and neural simulators, and the people designing the data collection systems that make training possible at scale. If you’re building in robotics, investing in the space, or trying to understand where this field is really headed, this podcast is for you.

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