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Conversations with CEOs.
I’m Diana Wolf Torres. I interview robotics CEOs about their companies, their technology, and what it takes to put robots to work. DROIDS brings those conversations together with field reporting, news, and analysis.
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Featured interview · NVIDIA GTC 2025
Spencer Huang · NVIDIA Robotics
Spencer Huang on Disney’s Star Wars droids.
I spoke with NVIDIA’s Spencer Huang about the simulation and reinforcement learning behind Disney’s BDX droids.
Interview by Diana Wolf Torres · 2½ minutes
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Robotics CEO interviews and reporting from the field.
Direct conversations · Original reporting
Inside robotics companies
CEO interviews, conversations with engineers, and reporting on robots moving into the real world.
CEO interview · Robot.com
How Kiwibot Became Robot.com
Co-founder and CEO Felipe Chavez Cortes on the company's evolution beyond campus delivery robots.
Read and watch →CEO interview · Robot.com
What It Takes to Deploy Robots
The second part of the Robot.com conversation, focused on putting robots to work.
Continue the interview →Interview · AgiBot
AgiBot Has Produced 15,000 Robots. What Comes Next?
Business Development Director Peng Chen on the difficult shift from demonstrations to deployment.
Read and watch →Interview · StarBot
Restaurant Robots Are Growing Up
Engineer Ricky Wu discusses the move from wheeled service robots to humanoids, and the customer requests driving it.
Read and watch →Interview · Fuchsia
The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Robotics
Fuchsia founder Tony Gao on the testing, certification, and compliance work that can hold up deployment.
Read and watch →CEO interview · Machina Labs
Making Factories Programmable
CEO and co-founder Ed Mehr on robots that shape metal and factories that can change what they make.
Read and watch →From the interview archive
More CEO conversations
CEO interview · Hello Robot
Robots and greater independence at home
Aaron Edsinger, CEO and co-founder of Hello Robot, on Stretch and the needs of people with severe mobility impairments.
Watch on LinkedIn →CEO interview · LineWise
Teaching robots from the work people do
James Kujareevanich on using first-person video of factory work to train robots.
Watch on LinkedIn →CEO interview · Noble Machines
Moby3 and the work of real deployment
Co-founder and CEO Wei Ding discusses manipulation, grippers, and robot safety.
Watch on LinkedIn →CEO interview · Workr
A robot built for the work that needs doing
Founder and CEO Ken Macken on a practical system for repetitive industrial tasks.
Watch on LinkedIn →Robotics on video
Robots, up close
Short interviews, demonstrations, and moments from the field.
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CEO interview · Kinisi Robotics
Built for work
A short conversation with the CEO of Kinisi Robotics about building a robot for work.
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More robotics clips · 6 videos
From the field
Conversations beyond the studio
Short recordings and dispatches from NVIDIA GTC, alongside interviews from the DROIDS archive.
- Meeting All3’s Mantis construction robot →
Field note · San Francisco - Robot.com: the next bottleneck was loading the robot →
Short clip · CEO Felipe Chavez Cortes - Machina Labs, metalworking robots, and a little Star Wars →
Short clip · CEO Ed Mehr - Agile ONE: a coworker on the factory floor →
Interview by Alex Torres · NVIDIA GTC - PSYONIC: the same hand for humans and robots →
Interview by Alex Torres · NVIDIA GTC - Favorite moments and chance conversations at GTC →
Field reporting · NVIDIA GTC
Analysis
What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Runs a Town?
What a simulated town reveals about the behavior of autonomous AI agents.
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More from DROIDS
Weekly interviews and reporting, with frequent news updates.
Browse the Substack archive →AI infrastructure & driving automation · 3 short videos
More video commentary, collected separately from the robotics interviews and demonstrations above.
More AI reporting and commentary
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Deep Learning with the Wolf · Diana Wolf Torres - AI doesn’t scale without power →
William Mao, Delta Electronics · NVIDIA GTC interview - Jensen Huang on AI and the pace of work →
Press conference dispatch · NVIDIA GTC
About DROIDS
Independent robotics reporting.
DROIDS is my free publication about robotics. I talk directly with CEOs, founders, engineers, and the people putting robots to work. I report from the field and publish interviews, news, and analysis.
You can read and subscribe on Substack or LinkedIn. Interviews and reporting appear roughly weekly, with frequent news updates in between.
The archive also includes interviews by Alex Torres, credited on each piece.
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