Welcome to This Is Robotics – Episode #40!
Where innovation meets imagination.

In this episode, we explore the thrilling fusion of robots and Generative AI—and where better to witness this convergence than inside the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical R&D labs?

First up: GenAI is already transforming the search for life-saving treatments—and today, we're going deep. How exactly are robots and AI teaming up to crack the toughest codes in drug discovery? You'll hear directly from the pioneers making it happen.

One such visionary is Alice Zhang, founder and CEO of Verge Genomics. Her mission? Nothing short of revolutionizing neuroscience research for the world’s most intractable diseases—Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Alice believes the current system is broken—and she’s raised $134 million to fix it. We catch up with her at Stanford, where she shares her bold new model for medical breakthroughs.

Then, we dive into the world of Pharma 4.0—where robots, GenAI, and brilliant human minds unite in a powerful alliance. What was once science fiction is now reality: rapid, intelligent drug discovery with astonishing success rates. You'll hear from the front-line researchers turning dreams into data—and data into cures.

Ever wonder how robots and AI actually work together in a lab setting to make these miracles happen? So do many of our listeners. That’s why we traveled to Liverpool, UK, to meet Andy Cooper, who’s redefining lab automation and will show you exactly how it's done.

And finally: Why make industrial robots smart? The answer could save your business millions. In fact, a staggering 82% of companies have suffered at least two major production line outages in just the last three years. With average downtime now costing $260,000 an hour, it’s a crisis that’s too expensive to ignore. Smart robots may just be the fix the industry desperately needs.

So buckle up—we’re about to take you inside the labs, the minds, and the machines shaping the future of health, science, and intelligent automation.

Let’s get into the news…

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Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast

Listening to Our Fans

We get lots of fan interest in our online news platform and podcast. To recognize and honor all that attention, June’s podcast is dedicated to replying to some of the email and queries that our fans sent to Asian Robotics Review, This Is Robotics, Robo AI News, and LinkedIn.

First off, thank you one and all for your interest in what we do. You are important to us, and we honor the time you take out of your busy day to send us what’s on your mind.

Here are three of the most frequent:

AI’s Red Queen Moment replies to the many who are worried to their cores over artificial intelligence, especially GenAI, and how it seems to be taking over everything everywhere, including the jobs of many or the imminent replacement to many careers and livelihoods. Email arrived in response to our article: A Primer to Combat GenAI Anxiety: We’re All in This Together.

Helping us out in this podcast is Nate Jones, a well-known AI guru, expert, educator, and AI podcast host.

Next up: Prompt vs Context Engineering. Are we abandoning the recently anointed code killer in prompt engineering for newcomer context engineering?. No, we are not. Rather, we are witnessing an evolution in using LLMs. Robotics is getting more with Context Engineering. Once again, we lean on the able services of Nate Jones. Physical AI: Robots Turn Data into Physical Action.

Followed by: Factories: Dark or AI? Unravel the confusion around “dark” factories and AI factories, smart factories, and Factory 4.0. What’s what? And is an AI factory really a factory that makes things? Did AI Just Free Humanity from Code?

June’s podcast concludes with Meet Mark: New Age of AMR Sales! Go inside the changing landscape of AMR and AGV sales with the newly-appointed CEO of the Americas for ANSCER Robotics, Mark Messina: No-Nonsense Workhorses for the Americas

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Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast

Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast