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14 min
Biggest robot security deal ever?
Robot guard dogs are moving from experiments to serious business. Asylon Robotics has signed a $17 million, five-year deal with security giant Securitas to deploy autonomous robot…
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28 min
1,000 humanoid robots. 1 factory.
What does it actually take to put 1,000 humanoid robots to work?Hexagon Robotics President Arnaud Robert joins me to explain how the company is moving its Aeon humanoid from pilots…
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29 min
He runs 100s of AI agents ... here’s how
What does it actually look like to work with hundreds of AI agents?In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, I chat with Steve Ancheta, founder and CEO of Zig.ai, an AI-native pl…
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29 min
2035 Homes: 1 Humanoid Robot or 10 Specialized Robots?
What will the home of 2035 actually look like: One humanoid robot that does everything, or 10 specialized robots, each handling one specific task extremely well?In this episode of…
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19 min
Quantum computing + AI + agents = AGI?
What happens when you combine frontier AI, agentic systems, and quantum computing?In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, we chat with Mykola Maksymenko, co-founder and CTO of…
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35 min
AI can now edit DNA and create deepfake viruses
AI is moving beyond text, images, and code. Now it’s learning to read and write -- shall we say program -- DNA.In this episode of NEXT, John Koetsier talks with Eric Nguyen, co-fou…
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36 min
Do we really need 400 humanoid robot companies?
Why aren’t hundreds of millions of intelligent robots already operating in the physical world?In this episode of NEXT with John Koetsier, John speaks with Seth Winterroth, partner…
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32 min
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 company believes the future of ro…
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7 min
Neo's amazing new hands - just released!
My instant first look at 1X’s just-unveiled NEO robot hands. Hot take: they're a massive leap toward truly useful humanoid robots.With 25 degrees of freedom, tendon-driven actuatio…
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37 min
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?In this episode, John Koetsier talks with longtime tech journalist, columnist, author, and podcas…
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17 min
Robots in schools? Interviewing Chris Chen from Faraday Future
Humanoid robots are often pitched as factory workers, warehouse assistants, or home helpers. But what if education becomes their biggest opportunity?In this episode, Faraday Future…
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21 min
Goodbye wheelchairs. Hello Cruz: autonomous mobility pods
What if airports had self-driving mobility pods that could safely navigate through crowds, just like something out of The Jetsons? Or the Pixar movie Wall-E?In this episode, John K…
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19 min
AI & education: disaster or destiny?
Is AI in education a disaster ... or inevitable. We can easily see that AI is already changing education ... but is it making kids smarter, or just more dependent?In this episode o…
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23 min
Roomba CEO's new home robot: not humanoid!
What if the next big wave of AI isn’t about robots doing your chores but about robots that understand you?In this episode, we sit down with Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot and th…
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36 min
AI-native manufacturing
AI is everywhere ... except the factory. What does AI-native manufacturing look like? Is it possible? Can AI agents help manufacturers produce more product at better quality?And, m…
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14 min
Quantum navigation: Unhackable, GPS-free
What happens when GPS goes down: jammed, spoofed, or completely denied?In this episode of TechFirst, host John Koetsier sits down with Michael Biercuk, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL, t…
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29 min
Are AI agents the new apps?
Are AI agents really the future of software — or just the latest wave of hype?In this episode of TechFirst, host John Koetsier sits down with Don Murray, CEO of Safe Software, to b…
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34 min
Amazing robot hands from Kyper Labs
What if the hardest part of building a humanoid robot isn’t the brain but the hands? Robot hands are half the complexity of a robot, a humanoid robot CEO told me a while back: they…
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30 min
Welcome to the agentic enterprise
What does the agentic enterprise of tomorrow look like? What happens when AI can build software in hours and agents can run entire business processes?In this episode of TechFirst,…
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31 min
NanoClaw is a safer OpenClaw
NanoClaw is a new agent inspired by OpenClaw, but without the massive security risks you get with OpenClaw. Essentially, it's a safer OpenClaw.What if you could run a powerful AI a…