The Robot Report Podcast

Join Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community.

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Episodes (269)

Friday Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
Fri Oct 2nd Inside Omron’s Next-Generation LD Mobile Robots
Sep 25th General Robotics Is Betting on Modular Intelligence, Not One Robot Brain

The Robot Report Podcast

Oct 9, 2026
1¼ hours
72 MB

Janine Sinanan-Singh, Director of Gen AI Research at Appen, joins Mike Oitzman and Gene Demaitre to discuss the data, evaluation, and human oversight needed to advance robotics and agentic AI. They explore how video and egocentric data can support robot training, why latency and generalization remain difficult, and where human judgment still matters. Janine describes Appen’s evolution from speech and linguistics into supporting generative AI, multimodal systems, agents, and robotics with expert data. The conversation examines what humanoid robot demos do—and don’t—show, how synthetic data can help teams scale, and what it takes to evaluate systems beyond t...

The Robot Report Podcast

Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test

The Robot Report Podcast

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