{"id":13173,"date":"2026-05-01T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=13173"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:07:17","slug":"powering-flexible-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/industry-forward\/powering-flexible-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible automation powered by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=TLFIE8743486662\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<p>Humanoid robots bring&nbsp;humanlike&nbsp;flexibility&nbsp;while not being limited by&nbsp;human anatomy. Additionally, humanoids&nbsp;combine human compatibility with scalable, software-driven intelligence to unlock flexible automation that fits existing environments while enabling new levels of efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s\u202fepisode of The Industry Forward Podcast, host Dale Tutt, Global Vice President of Industry Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software, is joined by Rahul Garg, Vice President of Industrial Machinery at&nbsp;Siemens Digital Industries Software to discuss how humanoids use physical AI to adapt to new environments all while augmenting the capabilities of human workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode,&nbsp;you\u2019ll&nbsp;learn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How humanoids&nbsp;go beyond human limits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The role of physical AI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Training methods for humanoids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industry expectations for humanoid production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/11\/Tutt-Dale_2194-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dale Tutt - Global Vice President of Industry Strategy, Siemens Digital Industries Software\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Dale Tutt &#8211; Global Vice President of Industry Strategy, Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Dale Tutt is Vice President of Industry Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Dale leads a team of experts to develop and execute industry-specific product and marketing strategies in collaboration with the global product, sales, and business development teams. With over 5 years of experience in this role combined with extensive experience in the aerospace and defense industry, Dale has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing companies as they embark on their digital transformation journeys.<\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dale-tutt-5866871b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Dale on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/05\/Rahul-Garg-bio-image.jpg\" alt=\"Rahul Garg - Vice President of Industrial Machinery at Siemens Digital Industries Software\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Rahul Garg &#8211; Vice President of Industrial Machinery at Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Rahul Garg is the Vice President of Industrial Machinery at Siemens Digital Industries Software. As a customer-centric leader, one of his great joys is helping simplify complex problems for customers and enabling success by delivering powerful, effective solutions that support small and mid-sized businesses. <span data-teams=\"true\">Throughout his career having worked at 3 start-ups and now a large enterprise, Garg has worked closely with SMBs and in technology-led industries to overcome key challenges and drive revenue growth with strategic solutions, smarter services and better business practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rahul-garg-5562271\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Rahul on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoid robots bring humanlike flexibility while not being limited by human anatomy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107733,"featured_media":13178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[949],"tags":[353,373,299,1119,1120,385],"industry":[49],"product":[],"coauthors":[990],"class_list":["post-13173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-forward","tag-ai","tag-digital-transformation-tag","tag-digitalization","tag-humanoid","tag-humanoid-robots","tag-podcast","industry-industrial-machinery"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/05\/Tech-Report-AI-Banner_original-1-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions\/13188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}