The HumanWare Project
Join host Méline Liu on The HumanWare Project, where transformative technology meets human potential.
Through conversations with pioneering minds, longevity experts, and scientific innovators, we explore how emerging technologies can enhance our fundamental humanity. From cutting-edge neuroscience to wellness breakthroughs, discover pathways to human flourishing in our rapidly evolving world.
A futurist with boundless curiosity, Méline guides you to the frontiers of human capability and our species' next evolutionary leap.
Episodes
66 episodes
The E-Bike for Walking: How a Powered Exoskeleton Is Giving People Their Lives Back
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 effortWe meet th...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: What It Actually Does to Your Brain, Body & Lifespan
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 Hum...
The Car That Runs on Sunlight: 10,000 Free Miles a Year
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 f...
This MIT Technology Can Detect Parkinson's Before Your Doctor Does | 60 Seconds to Longevity
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 ...
What Navy SEALs, Extreme Athletes & Top Executives Have in Common | Steven Kotler
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...
Bob Langer 60 Seconds to Longevity
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 breakthrough...
This Mirror Scans Your Body… Welcome to Behind the Scenes of CES 2026
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 unexpecte...
What Happens When AI Finally Gets a Body
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 ...
Meet the Robots Learning to Live With Us
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 en...
What Chinese New Year Teaches Us About Renewal
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...
What Happens Inside a Scalar Wave Room?
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 sync...
What Happens When Sound Becomes Medicine?
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 calibrat...
He Was Rejected 9 Times - Then Built World-Changing Medicine
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 w...
What CES Reveals About the Future of Health, AI, and Being Human
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 chapte...
CES 2026 Made One Thing Clear: The Body Is the Next Interface (Part 1)
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,...
What If Your Home Could Detect Illness Before You Do?
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...
Sergey Young on Healthspan, Biotech, and the Future of Ageing
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...
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable - What Top Harvard Scientist Now Knows About Prevention
s Alzheimer’s truly an unavoidable part of ageing - or is our understanding evolving?In this episode of The HumanWare Project, neuroscientist Dr. Rudy Tanzi explores what modern brain science is revealing about Alzheimer’s risk, resilie...
This Data Proves You Don’t Have to Get Weaker as You Age
Emily Capodilupo, Senior Vice President of Research Algorithms and Data at WHOOP, explains how wearable technology is redefining how we understand aging and human performance. She discusses how data-driven feedback loops - from sleep quality to...
The Neuroscientist Rewiring How We See the Brain
hat if we could actually see how the brain works, in motion, in colour, in real time?In this episode, MIT neuroscientist Edward Boyden reveals how his groundbreaking inventions, from light-based brain control (optogenetics) to expansion...
I Spoke to 100 Longevity Experts - Here’s What You Must Do in 2026
What happens when you spend a year speaking with over a hundred of the world’s leading longevity experts? In this special New Year resolutions episode, Méline Liu distills a year of insight and exploration into three science-backed practices th...
Why ADHD Is Rising: The Overlooked Factors Shaping the Modern Brain
Why are rates of ADHD and attention-related challenges increasing across children, teens, and even adults? In this grounded and eye-opening conversation, neuroscientist and nutritional researcher Dr. Rachel Gow unpacks the lesser-known factors ...
Your Brain Is Sabotaging Your Leadership (And How to Train It)
What if the real barrier to effective leadership isn’t strategy, skill, or experience - but the way your brain responds under pressure? In this conversation, Jason Leavy breaks down the emerging field of neuroscience-informed leadership and exp...
How Neurofeedback Unlocks Calm, Clarity and Focus: Sophie Hascher
What if focus could be trained - not through willpower, but through direct communication with your own brain?In this HumanWare Project episode, Méline Liu works with Sophie Hascher, founder of Brain Flow Elite, to explore how neurofeedback ...
The Science of Calm: How Neurofeedback Rewires an Anxious Brain | Sophie Hascher
What if your brain could learn to stay calm, the same way your body learns to grow stronger?In this episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline sits down with neurofeedback specialist Sophie Hascher reveals how we can train our brain to re...