Intelligent Everywhere

The next frontier in robotics? Giving them some feeling. Not emotion - the sense of touch.

At Blue Sky Robotics, CEO Steven King and his team are solving for touch like a math problem - no squishy human feelings required.

King also talks about how large visual models changed computer vision, why the business case for robots often comes down to replacing jobs, and why a humanoid robot is a safety problem in the home.

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Robots could be common on specialty crop farms within three to seven years, but that timeline isn't fixed.

Danny Bernstein says farming's future could be pulled forward, perhaps with a DARPA-style effort for agricultural innovation.

The Founder and CEO of Reservoir Farms, which hosts and showcases agtech, also discusses why farmers are challenging customers for roboticists and what's at stake if American farms don't automate.

Interview recorded September 16, 2026.

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A leader of the bipartisan Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus says only a small group of lawmakers are diving deep on AI — and that more people should be worried about the risks.

Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) joins the show to discuss what lawmakers actually know about AI, what they're arguing about, and why he's still an optimist.

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This engineer's algorithms see through darkness, rain, smoke, and fog.

Dr. Karen Panetta, Tufts Dean and computer vision CEO, explains how AI-powered sensing catches poachers at night, finds deadly pathogens in food, and spots dying solar cells from the sky.

Plus: the surprising origin of the digital twin, and why she'd rather break things than build them.

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This CEO is building Wall-E for outdoor work around the world.

Charlie Andersen, CEO of Burro, explains how 750 autonomous workers are hauling, mowing, spraying, and patrolling, learning from each other as they go. 

Next up: voice commands, animalistic design, and more training in a digital twin of the real world.

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Deepfake voices are getting better, but they still can't fake real emotion.

Dr. Gloria Washington, Director of the Affective Biometrics Lab at Howard University, explains the race to detect AI-generated voices before the window closes. 

Washington’s work covers smart glasses, heart rate data, brainwaves: data sources that could help AI interpret human feeling.

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Where to build the industrial facility? The stakes are high for your business and your community.

Didi Caldwell, CEO of Global Location Strategies, explains how AI can - and can’t - help with the process.

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How do you measure a forest's impact on carbon? Find out how much it weighs.

Louis de Vitry, Co-Founder and CTO of Kanop, uses satellite input and AI-powered analysis to measure how much CO2 a forest sequesters.

But companies are holding back some data that could make these measurements even better.

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From thermostats that coordinate with sensors to cut climate costs to cameras that know the difference between a person and a tree branch, AI is making smart homes smarter. Simpler, too.

This episode's guest is William Stovall, Senior VP of Marketing at the smart home company Vivint.

As energy costs rise and grids strain under demand, Stovall sees smart home AI as part of a larger solution—one that could eventually connect homes, EVs, and batteries into a more sustainable energy future.

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Marcelo Coelho, Director of the MIT Design Intelligence Lab, brings deep insight to human-computer interaction grounded in real-world experience.

He shares why designers should be intentional about a user's cognitive load, why kids should be polite to AI but not treat it like a person, and why his team's "religion" is getting prototypes in front of real users as fast as possible.

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