The latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech with Chris Benson

Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines "swarm" with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm!

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LINKS:

https://practicalai.fm/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/jef...
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https://www.ikea.com/global/en/newsro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_rob...
https://handbook.buildwithmatter.com/...
https://www.home-assistant.io/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474427/
https://osrf.github.io/ros2multirobot...
https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/...
https://huggingface.co/agents-course
https://embassy.dev
https://tokio.rs
https://www.arsturn.com/blog/the-ulti...

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Skype & Friends
03:20 Too late for NVDA?
04:40 Not a recent thing
06:58 Picking winners
10:42 Open models FTW
11:25 Peak parameter?
13:26 Project Prometheus
17:29 What is cool?
24:02 Roomba is the future
27:23 Home automation
29:23 IKEA gets in the game
29:45 Matter-compatible
30:40 Air autonomy
32:47 Animals swarm
34:46 The swarm definition
36:57 E pluribus unum
40:06 The Besieged Fortress
45:14 Not a swarm!
47:15 Mission control
50:58 The case of the queen
55:07 Humans on-the-loop
58:30 Jerod sniffs danger
1:01:42 Inflating billions
1:02:08 Aladdin's genie problem
1:05:42 State of the art
1:07:06 The next three years
1:10:17 Adam's three use cases
1:13:17 Also not a swarm
1:15:20 Where the people swarm
1:22:12 Go make stuff
1:25:08 Chris on Alexa
1:27:58 Take the power back
1:28:42 Adam's idea
1:29:51 Bye, friends