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Robot Talk Episode 41 – Alessandra Rossi

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Alessandra Rossi from the University of Naples all about social robotics, theory of mind, and robots playing football.
17 March 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 40 – Edward Timpson

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Edward Timpson from QinetiQ all about robots in the military, uncrewed vehicles, and cyber security.
10 March 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 39 – Maria Bauza Villalonga

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Dr Maria Bauza Villalonga from DeepMind all about robot learning, transferable skills, and general AI.
03 March 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 38 – Jonathan Aitken

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Dr Jonathan Aitken from the University of Sheffield all about manufacturing, sewer inspection, and robots in the real world.
26 February 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 37 – Interview with Yang Gao

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Professor Yang Gao from the University of Surrey all about space robotics and planetary exploration.
17 February 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 36 – Interview with Ignazio Maria Viola

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Professor Ignazio Maria Viola from the University of Edinburgh all about aerodynamics, dandelion-inspired drones, and swarm sensing.
10 February 2023, by



Robot Talk Episode 35 – Interview with Emily S. Cross

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Professor Emily S. Cross from the University of Glasgow and Western Sydney University all about neuroscience, social learning, and human-robot interaction.
03 February 2023, by

Sensing with purpose

Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, taking aim at sweeping problems such as food insecurity, climate change, and access to health care.
29 January 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 34 – Interview with Sabine Hauert

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Dr Sabine Hauert from the University of Bristol all about swarm robotics, nanorobots, and environmental monitoring.
28 January 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 33 – Interview with Dan Stoyanov

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Professor Dan Stoyanov from University College London all about robotic vision, surgical robotics, and artificial intelligence.
20 January 2023, by

Interview with Hae-Won Park, Seungwoo Hong and Yong Um about MARVEL, a robot that can climb on various inclined steel surfaces

We are happy to introduce the climbing robot, MARVEL (magnetically adhesive robot for versatile and expeditious locomotion), which can climb on various inclined steel surfaces.
15 January 2023, by

Robot Talk Episode 32 – Interview with Mollie Claypool

In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Mollie Claypool from Automated Architecture about robot house-building, zero-carbon architecture, and community participation.
13 January 2023, by

Robot Talk Podcast – November & December episodes (+ bonus winter treats)

Here we bring you the Robot Talk Podcast episodes from November and December, in topics such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, renewable energy, medical robotics, social robots, soft robotics, robotic prostheses, self-driving cars, industrial robots, multi-robot systems, robotic grippers, software development, testing and verification, and autonomous mobile robots.

In search for the intelligent machine

Elvis Nava teaches robots to carry out oral and written commands. To this end, he sends them to “training camps” where they learn to combine image, text and motion data.
28 December 2022, by

Looking beyond “technology for technology’s sake”

Whether building robots or helping to lead the National Society of Black Engineers, senior Austen Roberson is thinking about the social implications of his field.
08 December 2022, by

Robot Talk Podcast – October episodes

Here we bring you the Robot Talk Podcast episodes from October, in topics such as rehabilitation robotics, underwater robots, human-robot interaction, and aerial robots.

Robotics in the home

In this special live recording for the UK Festival of Robotics, Claire chatted to Dr. Patrick Holthaus, Prof. Praminda Caleb-Solly and Dr Mike Aldred (Dyson) about how social and assistive robots can offer company and help around the home, which can be game-changing for people with limited mobility or dementia.
11 September 2022, by

Spotlights on Three Exhibitors from CVPR 2022

Short interview spotlights with three inspiring startups that exhibited at CVPR2022.
01 September 2022, by
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Underwater Human-Robot Interaction #ICRA2022, with Michael Fulton

Michael Fulton describes his unique robot-to-human communication system using exaggerated body language.
22 July 2022, by

Exhibitors from ICRA 2022

We give a spotlight to four exhibitors from ICRA 2022: Tangram Vision, FLX Solutions, Exyn Technologies, and Pollen Robotics. Each speak to the value their companies bring to robotics and give live demos.
11 July 2022, by

At the forefront of building with biology

Raman is, as she puts it, “a mechanical engineer through and through.” Today, Ritu Raman leads the Raman Lab and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
28 June 2022, by

Coffee with a Researcher (#ICRA2022)

As part of her role as one of the IEEE ICRA 2022 Science Communication Awardees, Avie Ravendran sat down virtually with a few researchers from academia and industry attending the conference.

Interview with Andrea Thomaz (co-founder of Diligent Robotics): socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals

We sat down with Dr. Thomaz to talk about Moxi, how to manage people’s expectations about robots, and advice for young people and women in robotics.
16 April 2022, by and

Trustworthy robots

Robots are becoming a more and more important part of our home and work lives and as we come to rely on them, trust is of paramount importance. Successful teams are founded on trust, and the same is true for human-robot teams. But what does it mean to trust a robot?
08 April 2022, by

Interview with Axel Krieger and Justin Opfermann: autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis

Anastomosis is an essential step to the reconstructive phase of surgery and is performed over a million times each year in the United States alone. Surgical outcomes for patients are highly dependent on the surgeon’s skill. Their paper describes a surgical robot and workflow to perform autonomous anastomosis of the small bowel.
06 March 2022, by

Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world

Assistant professor of civil engineering describes her career in robotics as well as challenges and promises of human-robot interactions.
29 December 2021, by

Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners

The award-winning authors describe their work on a self-supervised framework for cloth unfolding which uses a pick, stretch, and fling primitive for a dual-arm setup from visual observations.
12 December 2021, by

Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners

The award-winning authors describe their work on a system for general in-hand object re-orientation.
24 November 2021, by

Robot stomachs: powering machines with garbage and pee

The Seinfeld idiom, “worlds are colliding,” is probably the best description of work in the age of Corona. Pre-pandemic, it was easy to departmentalize one’s professional life from o...
14 May 2021, by

WiR IV with Johanna Austin, roboticist, helicopter pilot & techsupervixen

Watch Johanna Austin talk about her journey, make her own career path, and trailblazing a way in STEM!! Johanna Austin was the first female Robotics and Automation Research Engineer in Boeing's Melbou...
14 March 2021, by and







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