Automated with Brian Heater

About Automated with Brian Heater

Get a direct line to the biggest names and brightest minds in robotics, Physical AI, and automation. Automated with Brian Heater brings you long-form conversations and unfiltered insights into how we got here, where we’re going, and what’s behind the technologies that are shaping how we live and work.

Publisher

Association for Advancing Automation

Category

science · technology · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Sept 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Dr. Jan Zizka on Brightpick and the Future of Warehouse Automation

   What would it take for one person to manage an entire warehouse? Brightpick CEO Dr. Jan Zizka sees that future taking shape through AI-powered picking, autonomous night shifts and robots that can ask for help. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Jan about building warehouse automation that customers can deploy, operate and scale. The conversation traces his path from Slovakia and MIT to co-founding Photoneo and Brightpick. Jan shares how childhood friendships helped sh...

2. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Jagdeep Singh: Teaching Robots From Internet Video at Rhoda AI

   What if the biggest bottleneck in robotics is the way robots are taught? Jagdeep Singh believes the industry needs a much larger and more diverse source of training data to build robots that can handle the unpredictability of real work. At Rhoda AI, that starts with internet video. In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Jagdeep, co-founder and CEO of Rhoda AI, about the company’s approach to physical AI, why he sees limits in vision-language-action models, and what it will...

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Andie Zhang on Why Industrial Robots Still Beat Humanoids

   Brian Heater interviews Andie Zhang, Global Portfolio and Technology Manager for Collaborative Robots at ABB, about why industrial robot arms remain superior to humanoids for factory applications.

Who has been a guest on Automated with Brian Heater

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• Andie Zhang
• Karen Panetta
• Ahmad Bahai
• Tony Zhao
• Carolina Parada

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