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
72 episodes
The Man Behind CVS Health Who Built Disney Parks Now Wants to Fix American Healthcare
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 syste...
Inside the Secret California Retreat Where Hollywood Goes to Reset
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 ...
The Ayurvedic Healer Who Helped Kourtney Kardashian Get Pregnant Using 5,000-Year-Old Medicine
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...
AI Has a 50% Chance of Ending Humanity and It Is Still the Most Exciting Time to Be Alive"
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 Diffusio...
AI Is Splitting the World in Two. Which Side Are You On?
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 th...
The Doctor Who Got a Stranger's Heart: What She Now Knows About Surviving Anything
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 ...
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...