Commercial robotics, explained from the field up.
The Robot Report Podcast brings robotics trade journalism into a weekly audio format, mixing industry news with interviews from companies building real machines. Its focus runs from warehouse automation and physical AI to drones, construction equipment, manufacturing, vision systems, safety, and legged robots.
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The Robot Report Podcast covers robotics as a working commercial field, where hardware, software, business models, safety, and deployment all collide. It is not a glossy future-of-tech show. The recent run of episodes points squarely at the problems companies are trying to solve now: physical AI for asset management, 3D vision, agricultural drones, autonomous construction equipment, robotic manufacturing, benchmark methods, and mobile robots built for difficult environments. The format is direct and trade-oriented. Episodes usually open with editors comparing notes on robotics news, space launches, conferences, or industry events, then shift into interviews with company leaders and technical operators. Those interviews often stay close to implementation. A discussion about RealSense turns into vision and robotic foundation models. A conversation with Hylio Drone traces how agricultural drone use cases have evolved from mapping and plant stress detection toward application work in the field. Bedrock Robotics brings construction into the frame, with attention to safety-critical AI, machine learning, controls, sensors, evaluation, and operations. Machina Labs expands the scope to programmable factories and robotic tools that can form, trim, inspect, and process metal from design data. The show’s best moments come when broad AI language is forced into contact with physical systems. Listeners hear how agentic platforms might coordinate work, how benchmarks could measure robot capability, and why legs matter when robots need to cross broken terrain. There is also a steady business layer: events, manufacturing scale, service networks, and customer risk all show up as part of the robotics story. The tone is collegial but informed, with enough casual chatter to feel like an editorial desk and enough specifics to remain useful. It suits people who want to track robotics beyond press-release summaries. Engineers, product leaders, operators, and robotics enthusiasts will find a recurring map of what is moving in the market. The show’s center of gravity is clear: real robots, real constraints, and the people trying to make automation dependable outside the demo stage.
Made for: For robotics professionals, automation operators, engineers, executives, and technology listeners who want industry context grounded in real deployments. It also suits curious listeners who follow AI but want to understand what happens when intelligence has to move through hardware.
What sets it apart: The show combines trade-journal newsroom context with interviews from robotics companies working in warehouses, farms, factories, construction sites, and difficult outdoor environments. Its edge is the constant return from AI ambition to sensors, controls, safety, evaluation, operations, and deployment reality.
Join Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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