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Robohub Podcast is a non-profit robotics podcast where we interview experts in robotics, including researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and venture capitalists. Our interviewers are researchers, entrepreneurs, and engineers involved in robotics. Our interviews are technical and, often, get into the details of what we are discussing, but we make an effort to have our interviews understandable to a general audience.

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366

Deep Learning Meets Trash: Amp Robotics’ Revolution in Materials Recovery, with Joe Castagneri

Abate De Mey 13 Oct 2023

In this episode, Abate flew to Denver, Colorado, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the future of recycling with Joe Castagneri, the head of AI at Amp Robotics. With Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF...

365

ReRun An Open Source Package For Beautiful Visualizations, with Nikolaus West

Abate De Mey 05 Apr 2023

Nico, Emil, and Moritz founded ReRun with the mission of making powerful visualization tools free and easily accessible for roboticists. Nico and Emil talk about how these powerful tools help debug th...

364

Shaking Up The Sheetmetal Industry, with Ed Mehr

Abate De Mey 17 Feb 2023

Conventional sheet metal manufacturing is highly inefficient for the low-volume production seen in the space industry. At Machina Labs, they developed a novel method of forming sheet metal using two r...

363

Going out on a Bionic Limb, with Joel Gibbard

Abate De Mey 21 Dec 2022

Joel Gibbard, co-founder of Open Bionics dives deep into their creative, imagination-capturing prosthetic limbs.

362

Precise Navigation using LEO Satellites, with Tyler Reid

Lilly Clark 02 Nov 2022

Dr. Tyler Reid, CTO of Xona Space Systems, discusses a new approach to global navigation satellite systems designed for self-driving cars.

361

Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik

Abate De Mey 10 Oct 2022

Areeb, the co-founder of Glacier, gives some insight into the opaque recycling industry, and why it is unable to handle the volume of recyclable good Americans through out each year.

360

Building Communities Around AI in Africa, with Benjamin Rosman

Abate De Mey 14 Sep 2022

Deep Learning Indaba is an organization that empowers and builds communities around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across Africa. Benjamin Rosman dives into how Deep Learning Indaba is impacting these communities.

359

Perception and Decision-Making for Underwater Robots, with Brendan Englot

Lilly Clark 21 Aug 2022

Prof Brendan Englot, from Stevens Institute of Technology, discusses the challenges in perception and decision making for underwater robots - especially in the field.

358

Softbank: How Large Companies Approach Robotics, with Brady Watkins

Abate De Mey 03 Aug 2022

Brady Watkins gives insights into how a large company like Softbank Robotics approaches the Robotics market

357

Origin Story of the OAK-D, with Brandon Gilles

Abate De Mey 01 Jul 2022

Brandon Gilles, the founder of Luxonis and maker of the OAK-D, describes the journey and the flexibility of the OAK-D line of products

356

Controlling a Drone After Sudden Rotor Failure #ICRA2022, with Sihao Sun

Abate De Mey 06 Jun 2022

Dr. Sihao Sun on his research for controlling a quadcopter after one of its rotors faces a sudden failure. His research takes in real-world assumptions where the quadcopter may already be in a compromised, difficult to correct orientation.

355

SLAM fused with Satellite Imagery #ICRA2022, with John McConnell

Abate De Mey 25 May 2022

John McConnell discusses the research presented at ICRA 2022 to reduce drift in SLAM algorithms by incorporating overhead satellite imagery.

354

Autonomous Flight Demo with CMU AirLab #ICRA2022, with Sebastian Scherer

Abate De Mey 24 May 2022

Sebastian Scherer from CMU's Airlab gives us a behind-the-scenes demo at ICRA of their Autonomous Flight Control AI. Their approach aims to cooperate with human pilots and act the way they would. h...

353

Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition Spotlight, with Yu Sun

Abate De Mey 21 May 2022

Yu Sun, previous chair of the Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition, speaks on the value that this competition brought to the robotics community.

352

Early Days of ICRA Competitions, with Bill Smart

Abate De Mey 21 May 2022

Bill Smart, one fo the early ICRA Competition Chairs, dives into the high-level decisions involved with creating a meaningful competition.

351

Duckietown Competition Spotlight, with Dr Liam Paull

Abate De Mey 17 May 2022

Dr. Liam Paull, cofounder of the Duckietown competition talks about the only robotics competition where Rubber Duckies are the passengers on an autonomous driving track.

350

Improving Perception through Interaction, with Carolyn Matl

Shihan Lu 21 Apr 2022

Dr. Carolyn Matl, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, explains why Interactive Perception and soft tactile sensors are critical for manipulating challenging objects such as liquids, grains, and dough.

349

Autonomous Need for Speed, with Joe Speed

Abate De Mey 08 Apr 2022

Joe Speed, VP of Product at ApexAI, dives into the current multi-year development process of bringing a car to market, and how ApexAI will transform this process into the shorter development time we see with modern technology.

348

Mimicking the Five Senses, On Chip, with Rob Telson

Abate De Mey 23 Mar 2022

Rob Telson dives into the Akida Neural Processor from BrainChip, which is mimicking the five senses from the human brain on a low-powered chip.

347

Event Cameras – An Evolution in Visual Data Capture, with Davide Scaramuzza

Abate De Mey 08 Mar 2022

Davide Scaramuzza deep dives into Event Cameras, a fundamentally new approach to capturing visual data

346

Autonomously Transporting Crops, with Suma Reddy

Kate Zhou 21 Feb 2022

Suma Reddy discusses crop transportation with autonomous mobile robots made by Future Acres.

345

Autonomous Vehicles for Operational Logistics with Evocargo, with Oleg Shipitko

Kate Zhou 07 Feb 2022

Oleg Shipitko discusses Evocargo's approach to transform the way we transport goods within facilities such as ports and warehouses.

344

Learning for Collaboration, Not Competition, with Jakob Foerster

Kegan Strawn 25 Jan 2022

Jakob Foerster, an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, dives into his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.

343

A Robot You Swallow, with Torrey Smith

Abate De Mey 03 Jan 2022

Torrey Smith discusses a robot you swallow that livestreams your digestive system for medical procedures such as endoscopies.

342

Unconventional Space Robots, with Stephanie Schneider

Lilly Clark 17 Dec 2021

Schneider, PhD Candidate at Stanford, explains her work on Reachbot, a long-reach crawling and anchoring robot repurposes extendable booms for mobile manipulation in Outer Space. They discuss the challenges and exciting elements of robotic prototyping for low-gravity or otherwise unique environments.

341

How Simbe Robotics is Innovating in Retail, with Brad Bogolea

Kate Zhou 23 Nov 2021

Brad Bogolea discusses the innovation behind Tally, the autonomous robot from Simbe Robotics. Tally collects real-time analytics inside retail stores to improve the customer shopping experience, as well as the efficiency of managing the store.

340

NVIDIA and ROS Teaming Up To Accelerate Robotics Development, with Amit Goel

Abate De Mey 23 Oct 2021

Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA, discusses the new collaboration between Open Robotics and NVIDIA. The collaboration will dramatically improve the way ROS and NVIDIA's line of products such as Isaac SIM and the Jetson line of embedded boards operate together.

339

High Capacity Ride Sharing, with Alex Wallar

Lilly Clark 12 Oct 2021

In this episode, our interviewer Lilly speaks to Alex Wallar, co-founder and CTO of The Routing Company. Wallar shares his background in multi-robot path-planning and optimization, and his research on scheduling and routing algorithms for high-capacity ride-sharing.

338

Marsupial Robots, with Chris Lee

Lilly Clark 14 Sep 2021

Robohub Podcast · Marsupial Robots Lilly interviews Chris Lee, a graduate student at Oregon State University. Lee explains his research on marsupial robots, or carrier-passenger pairs of heterogen...

337

Autonomously Mapping the Seafloor, with Anthony DiMare and Charles Chiau

Abate De Mey 26 Aug 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJP6B5jfaOE Robohub Podcast · Autonomously Mapping the Seafloor Anthony DiMare and Charles Chiau deep dive into how Bedrock Ocean is innovating in the world of M...

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