Robotics
Subject in Technology
Robotics has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including The Tim Ferriss Show, Huberman Lab. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Kevin RyanAmerican entrepreneur and investor, founder and CEO of AlleyCorp and former CEO of DoubleClick
Ryan says robot massage is a solvable problem that is largely solved already.
“It is a solvable problem, and we're probably 70% of the way there to solving it”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:22
Ryan predicts robots will see their biggest opportunity in single-use factory applications rather than varied tasks like restaurants.
“So single use is the best way, and factories are the best way for that. So that's going to be colossal in every single factory”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:13
Fei-Fei LiStanford computer science professor, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder of World Labs
Li says robotics will take roughly 30 years to manifest broadly in society because hardware is involved.
“I'm just saying it takes longer for especially a hardware also involved technology to manifest”
Huberman Lab: Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Aug 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:38:12
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Tim Ferriss Show · 1 episode
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
#884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many MoreThe Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 24, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
Tim Ferriss talks with investor Kevin Ryan about spotting 10-year trends, building DoubleClick, Gilt, Business Insider and MongoDB, psychedelic drug development, deep tech, and immigration.
Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei LiHuberman Lab · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 h 8 min
Andrew Huberman and computer scientist Fei-Fei Li discuss vision, how modern AI learns, its limits versus human cognition, AI in medicine and robotics, and education.