NEXT with John Koetsier (used to be TechFirst)

Deep tech conversations. Transcript here, insight to Substack, video to YouTube, news to Forbes. Also: sponsor TechFirst

Physical AI for high-DOF robot hands: Junghee Ryu from RLWRLD

Robot hands are one of the biggest frontiers in AI, and according to RLWRLD Founder & CEO Junghee Ryu, the challenge isn’t just building better...

Rhoda AI: 1000X less training data required?

Can robots learn from the internet the same way ChatGPT learned from text? In this episode, Andrew Wooten, co-founder of Rhoda AI, explains why his...

Neo’s amazing new hands

This is my pretty instant first look at 1X’s just-unveiled NEO robot hands. Hot take: they’re a massive leap toward truly useful humanoid...

Boston Dynamics: 1 on 1 with Atlas director of robot behavior

Alberto Rodriguez from Boston Dynamics joins us to explain what makes the new Atlas humanoid robot such a major leap forward … and why the...

Apptronik CEO on Apollo 3, Robot Park, and Google DeepMind

Humanoid robots are moving beyond prototypes, and Apptronik says its next generation will be the real thing. In this episode, Apptronik CEO Jeff...

Is AI killing jobs or are CEOs using it as an excuse?

Is AI really causing mass layoffs or are CEOs just using AI as a convenient excuse? Both are pretty easy to imagine as true. In this episode of...

Neo humanoid robot: exclusive interview with designer

Humanoid robots are finally leaving the lab. Neo from 1X will start shipping to home this year for just $20,000. I just had a chance to talk one-on...

This Wall-E self-driving pod is the future of wheelchairs

What if airports had self-driving mobility pods that could safely navigate through crowds, just like something out of The Jetsons? Or, like the Pixar...