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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
Audrow Nash
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254
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Collaborative Systems for Drug Discovery, with Peter Harris
In this episode, Abate interviews Peter Harris from HighRes Biosolutions about automation in the field of drug discovery. At HighRes Biosolutions they are developing modular robotic systems that work ...
18 February 2018, by
Abate De Mey
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249
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ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest conference an...
10 December 2017, by
Audrow Nash
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248
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Semi-active Prostheses, with Peter Adamczyk
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Adamczyk, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on semi-active foot and ankle prostheses. The difference is that active below-knee p...
24 November 2017, by
Audrow Nash
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247
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ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot, with Marco Hutter
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments,...
11 November 2017, by
Audrow Nash
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245
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make vehicles sa...
14 October 2017, by
Audrow Nash
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244
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Robot Pediatric Coach, with Ayanna Howard
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about her work to help children with the movement disorder cerebral palsy. Howard discusses ho...
30 September 2017, by
Audrow Nash
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243
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Disney Robotics, with Katsu Yamane
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Katsu Yamane, Senior Research Scientist at Disney, about robotics in Disney. Yamane discusses Disney’s history with robots, how Disney currently uses Robots, ...
17 September 2017, by
Audrow Nash
Folding robots: No battery, no wires, no problem
The traditional Japanese art of origami transforms a simple sheet of paper into complex, three-dimensional shapes through a very specific pattern of folds, creases, and crimps. Folding robots based on...
26 July 2017, by
Wyss Institute
The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
30 June 2017, by
Peter Corke
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
Harvard Gazette
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236
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IASP 2016: Prostheses and Finding Shoes, with Vadim Kotenev and Vagan Martirosyan
In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Vadim...
09 June 2017, by
Audrow Nash and Christina Brester
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
UWE Bristol
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234
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Trik Embedded Platform, with Roman Luchin
In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Roman...
13 May 2017, by
Audrow Nash and Christina Brester
Teaching robots to teach other robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...
10 May 2017, by
CSAIL MIT
Smart Grasping System available on ROS Development Studio
Would you like to make a robot to grasp something, but you think that is impossible to you just because you can’t buy a robot arm? I’m here to tell that you can definitely achieve this without buy...
10 May 2017, by
Ruben Alves
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
Ben Vagle
Are gestures the future of robotic control?
A few decades ago, touchscreens were impressive, yet clunky pieces of technology reserved for applications that did little more than show off that touchscreens were possible. Today’s touchscreens ar...
29 April 2017, by
Anna Johansson
Collaborative robotics at the Automate and ProMat trade shows
Six to ten years ago, exhibitors at Automate were promoting bin-picking in many, many booths. Bin picking wasn't mentioned this year because it is an available option these days. For the last six ye...
19 April 2017, by
Frank Tobe
The cheap arm project: An affordable, open-source robotics project
What do you get when you put together wood and rope? Well according to Plymouth University's Professor Guido Bugmann: a low-cost, open source, 2 meter tall robot! All buildable for under £2000. The C...
30 March 2017, by
Dominic Cassidy and Guido Bugmann
Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...
23 February 2017, by
Philip English
NAIST OpenHand M2S released
The NAIST OpenHand M2S was developed by a team of students as part of the school’s annual CICP project (read the blog post about it here), in which students can propose and organize their own resear...
16 February 2017, by
Felix von Drigalski
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227
podcast
RoboUniverse 2016: Agricultural Robotics, with Dan Harburg and Matthew Borzage
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews two speakers from the Agricultural track of the RoboUniverse 2016 conference in San Diego: Dan Harburg of Soft Robotics Inc. and Matthew Borzage of BioTac. Bo...
04 February 2017, by
Abate De Mey
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
Wyss Institute
Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
So – you’ve built a robot arm. Now you’ve got to figure out how to control the thing. This was the situation I found myself in a few months ago, during my Masters project, and it’s a problem c...
13 January 2017, by
Alistair Wick
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225
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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
Audrow Nash
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223
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Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Edward Neff, founder of SMAC Corporation. Mr. Neff discusses how breakthroughs in his company have allowed them to develop linear actuators compact enough to b...
11 December 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
16 November 2016, by
Filippo Arrichiello
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221
podcast
Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...
12 November 2016, by
Audrow Nash
Students develop cheap 3D printing technique for soft robotics
By Jurjen Slump.
Students of Delft University of Technology have developed a new add-on for a 3D printer that can cast silicones inside a 3D printed shell during the printing process. This new, and...
09 November 2016, by
RoboValley
