The Thinking Machine

Vision got robots looking. Language got them reasoning. But the moment a robot has to actually do something with its hands such threading a cable, screw a nut on a bolt, or manipulate a deformable object it can't fully see, t...

Diana Wolf Torres joins The Thinking Machine podcast to break down everything we saw at GTC 2026. Diana is the author of the DROIDS robotics newsletter and the Deep Learning with the Wolf AI newsletter, and we're both NVIDIA-...

Steve Xie spent years leading simulation at Cruise and NVIDIA before founding Lightwheel — and in that time he watched simulation go from a tool that was "great for showcasing to investors" to what he believes will become the...

Robots can walk. They can dance. They can even do backflips. But can they reliably fold your laundry, make coffee, or recover from mistakes in your kitchen? In this episode, I sit down with robotics researcher Chris Paxton to...

Tolga Kart spent seven years building massive 3D worlds for Call of Duty at Sledgehammer Games. Then he left gaming for Tesla Autopilot, led simulation at Parallel Domain, and now he's the CEO of Third Dimension AI, a company...

In this episode, Jonathan Stephens sits down with Kimate Richards , founder of 10Things , to explore what it really takes to deploy robots safely, reliably, and at scale. With decades of experience across robotics, control sy...