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    The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo

    Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...
    16 December 2020, by

    A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
    By Nicola Nosengo NCCR Robotics researchers at EPFL have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility....
    31 October 2020, by

    Lily the barn owl reveals how birds fly in gusty winds
    Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Royal Veterinary College have discovered how birds are able to fly in gusty conditions – findings that could inform the development of bio-inspired ...
    26 October 2020, by
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    310

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    RoboBee’s Untethered Flight, with Farrell Helbling

    In this episode, Kate Zhou interviews Farrell Helbling, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics lab, who has worked on developing the RoboBee, an insect-inspired robot that is the lightest vehicl...
    20 May 2020, by

    Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
    with Guy Hoffman Robotics Researcher, Cornell University An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robot...
    30 October 2019, by
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    266

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    Towards using Micro and Nano Robots in the Human Body, with Peer Fischer

    In this episode, Marwa ElDiwiny interview Peer Fisher, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the Director of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck I...
    06 August 2018, by



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    ICRA 2018 Exhibition, with Juxi Leitner, Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson and James Brett

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Juxi Leitner, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT; and Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson, and James Brett, from CSIRO. Leitner speaks about the Amazon Pickin...
    23 June 2018, by
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    256

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    Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić

    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matarić, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics. Socially ass...
    19 March 2018, by
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    255

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    Learning about Legged Locomotion from Birds, with Monica Daley

    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Monica Daley about learning from birds about legged locomotion. To do this, Daley analyzes the gaits of guineafowl in various experiments to understand the mec...
    04 March 2018, by
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    251

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    Open Source Prosthetic Leg, with Elliott Rouse

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Elliott Rouse, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, about an open-source prosthetic leg—that is a robotic knee and ankle. Rouse’s goal is to p...
    06 January 2018, by
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    Learning Prosthesis Control Parameters, with Helen Huang

    In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Helen Huang, Joint Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State, about a method of tuning powered lower limb prosthes...
    24 December 2017, by
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    Smart Swarms, with Vijay Kumar

    In this episode, Jack Rasiel interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.  Kumar discusses the guiding ideas behind his research on micro unmanned aeri...
    28 October 2017, by

    Robot-driven device improves crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy
    In the U.S., 3.6 out of 1000 school-aged children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). Their symptoms include abnormal gait patterns which results in joint degeneration over time. Slow walking spee...
    27 July 2017, by

    Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
    By Taylor Kubota, Stanford News Service Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of ...
    25 July 2017, by

    Spider webs as computers
    Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They have evolved over more than 200 million years and can be found in almost every corner of our planet. They are one of the most successful animals. Not less imp...
    27 June 2017, by

    Drones that drive
    Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature - many birds, insects and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibiliti...
    27 June 2017, by

    From drinking straws to robots
    By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft rob...
    16 June 2017, by

    The Uncanny Valley of human-robot interactions
    The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the flying object. In a demonstration of DJI’s newest drone, the audience marveled at the Cok...
    02 June 2017, by

    Researcher to develop bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee for prosthetics
    A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics La...
    01 June 2017, by

    TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
    Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a mini-van (you can read my original post here). Now, at DIYwalke...
    04 May 2017, by

    Grow a house with plant-robot hybrids
    Robots and plants are being intricately linked into a new type of living technology that its creators believe could be used to grow a house....
    30 March 2017, by
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    bots_alive, with Bradley Knox

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bradley Knox, founder of bots_alive. Knox speaks about an add-on to a Hexbug, a six-legged robotic toy, that makes the bot behave more like a character. They di...
    18 March 2017, by

    Discovering optimal strategies for fast robotic walking and climbing
    Chances are that you’ve never given much thought to how insects walk, or what combination of leg movements–or gaits–is most stable or fastest, but, if like a group of scientists from Ramdya, Flo...
    17 February 2017, by

    Transparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
    Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underw...
    02 February 2017, by

    Wearable AI that can detect the tone of a conversation
    It’s a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions like Asperger’s, this can make social situations extremely stressf...
    01 February 2017, by

    Soft exosuit economies: Understanding the costs of lightening the load
    Last year, Harvard’s soft exosuit team provided first proof-of-concept results showing that its wearable robot could lower energy expenditure in healthy people walking with a load on their back. Mad...
    30 January 2017, by

    Implantable microrobots: Manufacturing intricate biocompatible micromachines
    A team of researchers led by Biomedical Engineering Professor Sam Sia at Columbia Engineering has developed a way to manufacture microscale machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in t...
    10 January 2017, by

    Robot Life Survey
    What might the first western explorer have thought upon encountering whales, flamingos and iguanas? What would have they thought of these strange near-fantastical creatures? What is it like for 21s...
    09 January 2017, by , and
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    A Wearable Robotic Extra-Finger for Grasp Compensation, with Domenico Prattichizzo

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Domenico Prattichizzo, Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena and Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova in Italy, about a ...
    07 January 2017, by

    Designing robots with bugs??
    Ask a child to design a robot, and they’ll produce a drawing that looks a little like you or I—the parts may be gray and boxy, but it will have two arms, two legs, and a head (probably with an ant...
    26 December 2016, by

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