Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Robots can help us be more human—if we play our cards right.

Hans Peter Brondmo is the founder of Everyday Robots at Google and has spent decades creating and training AI-powered robots. “The robots are coming,” he says. “And they cannot get here soon enough.”

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Credits:
Producers: Alethea Ng and Kshiteej Sawhney
Host: Charles Yao
Guest: Hans Peter Brondmo
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Timestamps:
0:00 Cold Open & Lavin Voices Intro
0:30 Intro: Charles on Hans Peter & Episode Overview
1:48 Hans Peter’s Path to Google X
7:02 Inside Everyday Robots at Google
9:23 Teaching Robots with AI & Simulation
12:54 Designing Robots People Accept
18:09 Robots, Aging & Caregiving
22:06 Automation and the Future of Work
29:26 AI in Business: Hype vs Reality
39:57 When Will Robotics Have Its ChatGPT Moment?
49:24 What It Means to Be Human in the AI Age
55:50 Final Reflections & Outro