AI & Robotics Podcast
Every robot that will ever cook, care, build or carry learns from a person first. We talk to the people closing that loop, turn after turn, until machines are as capable as the humans who teach them.
About
In control engineering, a closed loop is a system that measures the result of its own action and corrects itself. Robot learning works the same way: people demonstrate, robots try, people correct, robots improve. The loop between humans and machines is closed with data.
Every turn of that loop moves a little more of the hard, repetitive and dangerous work from people to machines, and gives the time back to us. More care, more craft, more life. That is the future we want to help build, one conversation at a time.
We talk to founders, engineers and researchers, and to the companies putting robots to work, about how it really happens: the demonstrations, the data, the business case and the long road from the lab to the factory floor and the home.
Our mission: keep closing the loop until robots are as good at real work as the people who teach them.
Who you will hear
01 · Show
People who capture human skill: demonstrations, teleoperation, motion and touch data from real work.
02 · Learn
Founders, engineers and researchers turning that data into robots and models that actually work.
03 · Improve
Companies putting robots to work, and what it changes for the business and the people next to them.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Coming soon
October 20–22, 2026. Conversations with robotics founders and CEOs, recorded on the show floor. If you are building robots or the data behind them, look for the Closed Loop mic.
Host
Founder & CEO, Orange Hill · AI strategy & automation
For more than twenty years Tihomir has helped organisations turn technology into working business, from startups to telecoms, public institutions and global consumer brands. As founder and CEO of Orange Hill in Belgrade and Vienna, he advises leadership teams on AI strategy and automates the work that runs their companies.
Physical AI is the next step: the same ideas, now applied to work done with hands. On Closed Loop he goes straight to the people who know the field best and asks the questions business leaders and builders actually have, so that everyone listening can see where robots will create value first, and how to get there.
He is convinced this is the most important technology shift of our lifetime, and that the best way through it is together.
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