The HumanWare Project

Greg Frey Jr is the Executive Chef at Golden Door, one of California's most celebrated wellness retreats, where food is grown on site and every meal is designed to fuel transformation. In this quick-fire 60 seconds, Greg shares the rule that matters most for a long and healthy life, and it has nothing to do with superfoods. He explains: ◼ Why stress is the single biggest threat to your longev...

Méline Liu has sat across from some of the world's leading voices in longevity, neuroscience, and human performance. But what does she actually do herself? In this candid behind-the-scenes moment, Méline shares the daily habits she never skips, the brain food she swears by, the biohack that surprised her most, and why she launched a print magazine in a world that said print was dead. She also...

Tilak Mandadi spent years at Disney building some of the most ambitious guest experiences in the world, from Shanghai Disneyland to Star Wars Land. Now he is applying that same consumer-first thinking to one of the most complex and broken systems on the planet: American healthcare. Tilak is the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at CVS Health, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world...

Golden Door has been transforming the lives of its guests for 75 years. Tucked away in the hills of Southern California, it is a place built around a single belief: that true wellbeing comes from movement as well as stillness, and that carving out space for yourself is not a luxury, it is a necessity. In this episode, Méline visits one of the world's most respected wellness retreats to unders...

Martha Soffer has been quietly transforming the health of some of the world's most recognisable people from a small room beneath her house in Santa Monica. Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, and Kourtney Kardashian have all found their way to her door. Most of them came because nothing else was working. Now Martha is the founder of Surya Spa and one of the world's leading Ayurve...

Fredric Marshall has spent 32 years studying how humans learn, resist, and ultimately change. As an AI investor who sees the business plans and deal sheets, he has a message most people are not ready to hear: the pace of change we are living through today is only the beginning, and the world is quietly splitting into two groups of people. Fredric Marshall is a learning and change expert, founder o...

Emad Mostaque puts his personal probability of human extinction from AI at 50%. A coin toss. And yet he believes this is the most exciting time in human history to be alive. Emad is the founder of Stability AI, the creator of Stable Diffusion with over 300 million downloads, and now the architect of a sovereign AI stack being built to give every person on earth ownership of their own intelligence....

Dr. Dawn Mussallem, is Global Chief Medical Officer of Fountain Life, stage 4 cancer survivor, and heart transplant recipient carrying a stranger's heart inside her chest. She spent 25 years at Mayo Clinic, lost her husband to the very disease she now fights to detect early, and emerged from her own mortality with a singular mission: to change the way humanity approaches health. In this conve...

In this episode, we meet Luke Mooney, CEO of Dephy — an MIT-trained engineer who started by building robotic prosthetics to to make walking easier and less exhausting. It helps people walk further, faster, and with less effort We meet the Dephy Sidekick: a powered footwear system that acts like an extra calf muscle, giving.  We sit down with Luke to understand how it works, who it's built for...

What if one of the most powerful therapies for longevity, brain performance, and recovery has been hiding in plain sight - used by elite athletes, Hollywood figures, and high-performing entrepreneurs for years? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline sits down with Andrei Nicolescu and Alexandru R. Harbuzaru from HPO.Tech - engineers and pioneers at the forefront of hyperbaric oxygen ther...

What if your car could refuel itself while you slept, while you worked, while you simply lived your life? That's not a distant promise - it's what Aptera Motors has already built. In this episode, we step inside the Aptera, the world's first true solar electric vehicle, and speak with Chris McCammon, Head of Marketing, about the philosophy behind one of the most radical rethinks of...

What if a wireless signal in your home could tell you more about your health than your doctor 0 before you even feel unwell? In this episode of 60 Seconds to Longevity, Méline Liu sits down with Dina Katabi, MIT professor and pioneer of invisible health technology, to explore a breakthrough that could redefine how we monitor, detect, and prevent disease. Dina's research uses wireless signals...

What if the key to living longer, thinking sharper, and recovering from burnout wasn't a supplement or a biohack - but a mental state you were born to access? In the first episode of Built to Last, Méline Liu sits down with Steven Kotler - bestselling author, neuroscience researcher, and founder of the Flow Research Collective - for a wide-ranging conversation filmed in a vintage car about th...

What if the future of longevity is already being built… and you just haven’t seen it yet? In this short but powerful conversation, legendary scientist Bob Langer - one of the most cited engineers in history - breaks down the breakthroughs quietly shaping the future of human health. From the tiny particles that made mRNA vaccines possible… to the idea of growing personalised brains outside the body...

In this behind-the-scenes episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline takes you inside CES in Las Vegas, a showcase of cutting-edge technology. From AI-powered health diagnostics to the overwhelming pace of innovation, the days unfold in unexpected ways! This episode captures a real perspective of CES and the obstacles that can arise when travelling and filming!

In this episode of The HumanWare Project, we explore the future of robotics and embodied AI with David Schulhof, founder of Toborlife. As advances in artificial intelligence accelerate, a new frontier is emerging: intelligent machines that can operate in the real world, interact with humans, and perform useful tasks in everyday environments. Rather than focusing only on robotic hardware, this conv...

What happens when robots begin to move, listen, and respond in the same spaces we live in? In this behind-the-scenes look a ToborLife AI robots, we explore a new generation of machines designed not just for research labs, but for real environments. From a quadruped robot capable of navigating a home and patrolling with cameras and lidar, to a humanoid system that can hear where your voice is comin...

What does it truly mean to begin again? In this reflective episode, Méline connects the wisdom of past HumanWare conversations - from Qi Gong practice with Antonio Bellomo,Traditional Chinese Medicine with Dr. Zhang,  nervous system regulation with Dr Sarah Boss, and philosophical reflection with David Cornwell. Rather than viewing the Chinese New Year as a single celebration, this episode explore...

Can sound truly influence the way we think, feel, and experience ourselves? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline travels to Sedona to step inside the Harmonic Egg - a chamber designed to immerse the body in carefully calibrated sound and light frequencies.  In a world defined by constant stimulation, what happens when you allow yourself to do nothing.

What happens when you place yourself in an environment designed to interact directly with your brain and nervous system? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, we visit Sheila Jackman’s Scalar Wave room - a space surrounded by 24 synchronised screens running a continuous visual program. As Sheila explains, the system is designed to try and allow the brain might be able to absorb these signals s...

Dr. Robert Langer discusses how he approaches scientific research, entrepreneurship, and the process of turning ideas into real-world technologies. Drawing from decades of experience in medicine, engineering, and company building, he explains why asking the right questions matters more than having immediate answers, and how progress in health technology often happens slowly and unevenly. Dr. Lange...

CES is often framed as a race toward faster, smarter, more powerful technology. But beneath the noise, a quieter shift is happening - one that asks a more important question: who are these technologies actually for? In this second chapter from CES, The HumanWare Project explores health and AI innovations designed not just to optimise performance, but to support real human lives. From brain-based n...

In this on-the-ground episode from CES 2026, The HumanWare Project explores what today’s emerging technologies quietly reveal about where innovation is heading. From robotics and diagnostic imaging to health monitoring and ageing-related tools, a pattern begins to surface: technology is moving closer to the human body, not farther away. We look at the newest technologies looking to integrate into...

What if the walls around you could quietly help protect your health? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, we explore a radical shift in how health can be understood, monitored, and supported - without wearables, cameras, or invasive tools. Dina Katabi,  Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, reveals how everyday signals already moving through our homes can be used to...

Longevity is often framed as a race toward immortality - more supplements, more data, more promises. But what if that framing is the problem? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, longevity investor and advocate Sergey Young offers a grounded, clear-eyed perspective on what longevity actually means - and what it doesn’t. Drawing from his work in biotech, health innovation, and long-term invest...