RobTalk

Is 2026 the year world models make Physical AI real?
Vision-Language-Action models have become the standard approach to robot learning over the last few years. In this episode, Felix Frank from our Robot Intelligence team explains why the next shift is already underway: world models that predict what happens next before a robot decides what to do.
We cover how the field moved from small, task-specific models to large pretrained architectures, why memory and context work differently in robotics than in language models, and why robots still need to run at high frequency with very limited context per decision.
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Is legged locomotion actually a solved problem?
In this episode of RobTalk, Felix Frank from our Robot Intelligence team explains how legged robots learn to walk, and why going from an impressive stage demo to a reliable real-world deployment is still one
of the hardest open problems in robotics.

You'll gain insights into:
- Why footstep planning used to mean months of hand-engineered optimization
- How GPU-parallelized simulation and domain randomization changed the entire approach
- What retargeting means, and why human motion data now trains robot policies
- The difference between imitation learning and adversarial motion priors
- Why...

Do dancing robots we see prove that autonomous robotics has been solved?

Autonomous Robotics are becoming more impressive every year. They can dance, run marathons and perform movements that seemed impossible just a few years ago.

But does that mean they’re ready for real industrial applications?

This episode takes an honest look at where the technology actually stands, what those demos can and cannot do, and what the next real milestone looks like.

You’ll gain insights into:
- Viral robot videos being scripted,, and what that means
- Robots having gone from not being able to stand 10 years ago...

Industry 5.0 is not a tech upgrade. It is a different question entirely.

Where Industry 4.0 asked what machines can do, Industry 5.0 asks where we want to be as a society. That shift changes everything: Who writes the standards, what factories are optimized for, and what the real role of AI and robotics actually is.

You'll gain insights into:
- what Industry 5.0 really is, why it comes from a completely different place than 4.0, and what that means for how technology is built and used
- the three pillars that define it: human centricity, sustainability and resilience
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