Embodied AI Podcast RoboPapers Hits Episode 100, Adds New Co-host
Embodied AI and robotics paper podcast RoboPapers reached its 100th episode on September 2. Hosted by Chris Paxton, Michael Cho (micoolcho), and Jiafei Duan, the milestone episode announced Ruijie He as a new co-host and launched a companion retrospective site compiling show statistics and embodied AI trend highlights.
Confirmed
- The podcast has recorded over 100 episodes totaling roughly 100 hours, with guests spanning 9 countries and 158 top robotics researchers, per host reposts.
- The show ran for about two years (March 2025–2026 per reposts), and the team published a stats-heavy retrospective page.
- The 100th episode reviewed core embodied AI topics covered over the run — robot learning scaling, humanoid whole-body control, tactile sensors, sim-to-real — and highlighted the most-watched episodes and most-featured robots.
- The show originated from casual chatter that robotics research needed more technical podcasts.
- Chris Paxton's own post confirmed new co-host @ruijiesg; early guest ToruOO congratulated the hosting team. BitRobot co-founder micoolcho is also part of the host team.
Why it matters
RoboPapers is a representative show for tracking frontier papers in the embodied AI community, widely seen as a window into cutting-edge robotics thinking. Its data-driven 100-episode retrospective offers a useful reference for researchers tracking shifts in embodied AI research focus.
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- [source] RoboPapers hits 100 episodes on embodied AI and adds a new co-host — chris_j_paxton · 2026-09-02
- [source] RoboPapers Embodied AI Podcast Hits 100 Episodes, Launches Year-One Trends Site — DJiafei · 2026-09-02
- Robotics podcast RoboPapers hits 100 episodes, adds new co-host — micoolcho · 2026-09-02
- Robotics research podcast RoboPapers hits 100 episodes — chris_j_paxton · 2026-09-02
- Robotics podcast RoboPapers hits 100 episodes, spotlighting scaling robot learning — chris_j_paxton · 2026-09-03
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