Robotics and AI are reshaping our world. As the line between human and machine blurs, how do we stay connected?
In Progress explores the human side of this transformation. We sit down with the visionaries building the future and the everyday people living through it, from designers mastering AI to drivers navigating the robotic age. It is not just about the technology, it is about the stories, the ethics, and finding our place in what comes next.
This is a celebration of where we are heading, and of the progress built into who we are. Join Tim to find the human signal in the noise.
The Hidden Team Keeping Your Game Online | Tom Penrose | In Progress with Tim Miller
When you log in to play with friends, someone has to keep the whole thing running. Tom Penrose has spent 15 years doing the unsexy work behind the world's biggest games, including helping move Apex Legends to new infrastructure while hundreds of thousands of people were playing. He joins Tim to talk about what AI is really changing in game development, why juniors can now build things they don't fully understand, and why a game made entirely by machines may never replace the reason we press play in the first place: connecting with other people.
30 Jul 2026
Would You Still Love Your Dinner If A Robot Made It? | Ruth Baker | In Progress with Tim Miller
Food is one of the ways we show love. So what happens when we find out a machine made it? Food safety expert Ruth Baker joins Tim to unpack the research showing people enjoy the exact same meal less the moment they know a robot cooked it, why imperfection turns out to be part of the appeal, and why that one human moment, the plate handed over with a smile, might be the bit worth protecting.
22 Jul 2026
Designing Through Disruption: 30 Years of Graphic Design Change with Graham Bell
Graham Bell has been a graphic designer for 30 years, creating somewhere between 55,000 and 60,000 pieces of artwork for everyone from local cafés to Ferrari, Shell and the University of Oxford. He started when artwork was photographed by a camera the size of a small car, and watched that entire world vanish within a couple of years when the Mac arrived.Now it's happening again. In this conversation, Graham is refreshingly honest about what AI and Canva have done to his business, the clients he's lost, and why he went from fearing AI to using it every single day. We talk about the designers who refused to adapt last time, why "good enough" is reshaping the industry, whether people actually care if art is made by a human, and what a 30-year career teaches you about riding a wave of change rather than being swept away by it.Find out more about Graham:Website: absolutegraphics.co.ukLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/graham-bell-90323316In Progress with Tim Miller explores the human side of AI and robotics. Find the human signal in the noise at inprogress.show
15 Jul 2026
Personal Trainer to Life Coach: Where Does AI Fit? | Nick Finch | In Progress with Tim Miller
Tim sits down with Nick Finch, a personal trainer turned life coach who helps people perform well, not just physically but mentally.
We get into what performing well really means, why so much of it comes back to the mind, and how a fitness coach often ends up being a rock, a friend and an accidental counsellor.
Nick loves AI and uses it for everything, but he is honest about its limits. We explore where it fits in coaching and where it does not: building training plans through good prompting, why beginners get stuck with generic programs, and that odd moment when you realise something was made by AI and feel yourself disconnect. We also dig into accountability, whether you can really answer to an AI the way you answer to a person, and what happens when people turn to chatbots for support they used to get from a human.
Nick also shares his own story, from bullied skinny kid to the military, bodybuilding and a love of daft, brilliant endurance challenges.
A warm, curious conversation about staying human as the tools around us change, and finding the human signal in the noise.
Guest: Nick Finch, host of the Perform Well podcast.
Exploring the human side of AI and robotics.
8 Jul 2026
Is AI Stealing the Struggle That Makes Us Human?
Tim sits down with Kit Higginson, philosophy teacher and founder of the Southampton Philosophy Forum, for a proper wrestle with what AI and robotics mean for being human. From the Enlightenment to the printing press, from AI-generated music to humanoid robots in the home, they dig into the big one: if technology takes away the struggle, does it take away the meaning too? A warm, honest conversation between an optimist and a sceptic, covering suffering, creativity, transhumanism, and why Kit thinks the real danger isn't the technology but who controls it.
Find Kit at the Southampton Philosophy Forum, meeting twice a month, "a place for interesting people to have interesting conversations".
1 Jul 2026
Can AI Heal Trauma? | Ivan Rose | In Progress with Tim Miller
Cognitive hypnotherapist Ivan Rose is not convinced a chatbot can do his job, at least not yet. In this first episode of In Progress with Tim Miller, Tim asks him the big question: can AI actually help us heal, or is human connection the one thing it can never replace?
Ivan is an award-winning cognitive hypnotherapist, counsellor and mental well-being specialist, creator of CHANT (cognitive hypno-neuro therapy) and author of ten books on mental health. He and Tim explore why he believes mental health is far simpler than we make it, whether AI can really clear trauma, and why human connection only grows more valuable in an AI world. Along the way, Ivan shares his own story, from estate agent to cupcake shops to therapy.
In Progress with Tim Miller is a hopeful, curious conversation about AI, robotics and what it all means for us as people, with the people building the future and the people living through the change.
Find Ivan at ivanrose.co.uk.
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