Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick Podcast
1) Werner Kraus: Clean Room Humanoids, Got Particles? Get Certified | Turn the Lens Ep54
Werner Kraus leads robotics research at Fraunhofer IPA, where 1,000 engineers work on production systems and the unglamorous infrastructure that makes humanoids commercially viable: standards. Not the...Show More
2) Chris Kudla: A Humanoid to Hug,' Just Right' Level of Human | Turn the Lens Ep53
Chris Kudla, Co-Founder and CEO of Mind Children, explains why his company is building social humanoid robots instead of utility workers. While most humanoids focus on warehouse tasks and manufacturin...Show More
3) Joe Michaels: Teleoperation, Controlling Complex Robots By Feel | Turn the Lens Ep52
Joe Michaels, SVP of Sales and Marketing at 1HMX, explains why haptic feedback and teleoperation are critical for training humanoid robots. While synthetic data and video help robots learn basics, the...Show More
4) Evan Wineland: Deploying is the Point. Affordable Robots that Work | Turn the Lens Ep51
Evan Wineland and his co-founder started Weave Robotics with a principle that cuts through the industry's typical timeline: "Deploying is the point. It is the strategy. It is the value." They incorpor...Show More
5) Jeremy Fishel: Nature's Best Manipulator, Man's Best Controller: Hands | Turn the Lens Ep50
Jeremy Fishel, Principal Scientist at Sanctuary AI, explores why human hands remain robotics' greatest challenge and most important breakthrough opportunity. With nearly two decades of research in tac...Show More
6) Jeff Burnstein: Robotics Imperative, Standards, National Strategy | Turn the Lens Ep49
Jeff Burnstein, President of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), reveals why eight countries have national robotics strategies while America doesn't—and what four decades of industrial robo...Show More
7) Ed Colgate: Soft Hands, Dexterous Robots | Turn the Lens Ep48
Ed Colgate, Northwestern University, and Director of the HAND ERC reveals why the secret to dexterous manipulation isn't precision engineering, but something surprisingly simple: softness and large co...Show More
8) Nic Radford: Declining Labor, Generalizable Skills, Ready Market | Turn the Lens Ep47
Nic Radford, Co-founder and CEO of Persona AI, sits down with Jeff Frick at Humanoids Summit 2025 (presented by ALM Ventures) to unpack a hard truth: robots aren't difficult to build—they're difficult...Show More
9) Pete Florence: Generalist, Scaling Laws, Train One Improve All | Turn the Lens Ep46
What if training a robot to do ONE thing automatically made it better at EVERYTHING? Pete Florence, Co-founder & CEO of Generalist and former Google DeepMind Senior Research Scientist, joins Jeff Fri...Show More
10) Stop the Slop: Five AI Fundamentals, Smarter Prompts, Real Results | Turn the Lens Ep45
Five game-changing AI tips from my training with Kyle "KMo" Moschetto. Discover the RGCOA framework for prompt engineering, why paying for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini is essential for serious work, an...Show More