Are world models the unlock for Physical AI? | Episode 19

This Week in AI · Jun 25, 2026 · 1h 13m

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*When we think of “Physical AI,” most of us conjure images of humanoid robots and self-driving cars. But there’s a lot more to the category than just breakdancing Chinese bots and Waymos, from excavators autonomously digging tomorrows worksites, to a robot the size of four pizza boxes deploying to the ISS.

Guest host Alex Wilhelm sits down with three founders in the trenches of the Physical AI Space:

Boris Sofman of Bedrock Robotics, which builds autonomous construction equipment

Jeff Hawke of Odyssey, a frontier AI lab…