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Interview with Andrea Thomaz (co-founder of Diligent Robotics): socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals
Sonia Roberts and Women In Robotics
16 Apr 2022
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.
Trustworthy robots
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
08 Apr 2022
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?
Interview with Axel Krieger and Justin Opfermann: autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
06 Mar 2022
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.
Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world
MIT News
29 Dec 2021
Assistant professor of civil engineering describes her career in robotics as well as challenges and promises of human-robot interactions.
Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
12 Dec 2021
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.
Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners
Lucy Smith
24 Nov 2021
The award-winning authors describe their work on a system for general in-hand object re-orientation.
Robot stomachs: powering machines with garbage and pee
Oliver Mitchell
14 May 2021
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...
WiR IV with Johanna Austin, roboticist, helicopter pilot & techsupervixen
Andra Keay and Women In Robotics
14 Mar 2021
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...
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute
Marwa ElDiwiny
26 Jan 2021
Interesting discussion with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, CEO of the Terasaki Institute, and one of the pioneers of the Bioengineering field. Prof. Ali’s journey from Harvard and UCLA to the Terasaki In...
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?
Marwa ElDiwiny
13 Jan 2021
Interesting discussion with Hod Lipson, head of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University in New York. Can robots be self-aware? Can they design other robots and self-repair? Why should we evolve rob...
#IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Nov 2020
The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) has teamed up with Black in Robotics (website, Twitter) to release a new special series named BiR-IROS: Black in Rob...
#IROS2020 Original Series: Real Roboticist
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
16 Nov 2020
Are you curious about the people behind the robots? The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) features a new Original Series called Real Roboticist hosted by ...
Making sense of vision and touch: #ICRA2019 best paper award video and interview
Robohub Editors
29 Jul 2019
PhD candidate Michelle A. Lee from the Stanford AI Lab won the best paper award at ICRA 2019 with her work "Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for...
Robots in Depth with Federico Pecora
Robots in Depth
21 Jul 2019
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Federico Pecora about AI and robotics. Federico Pecora is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sens...
Robots in Depth with Andreas Bihlmaier
Robots in Depth
12 Jul 2019
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andreas Bihlmaier about modular robotics and starting a robotics company....
Q&A with Cecilia Laschi – The Robotics Flagship
Sabine Hauert
25 Nov 2018
Why is a Robotics Flagship needed?
Robotics is a solid technological field, with important market opportunities. Europe contributed significantly to the growth of knowledge in this field and it is co...
Robots in Depth with Richard Voyles
Robots in Depth
09 Nov 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Richard Voyles about rescue robotics and advising politicians about robotics....
Robots in Depth with Stefano Stramigioli
Robots in Depth
04 Nov 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Stefano Stramigioli about the Robotics and Mechatronics lab he leads at University of Twente. The lab focuses on inspection and maintenance...
Robots in Depth with Sebastian Weisenburger
Robots in Depth
24 Oct 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks Sebastian Weisenburger about how ECHORD++ works, with application-oriented research bridging academia, industry and end users to bring robots to...
Robots in Depth with Nicola Tomatis
Robots in Depth
19 Oct 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Nicola Tomatis about his long road into robotics and how BlueBotics handles indoor navigation and integrates it in automated guided vehicle...
Robots in Depth with Søren Peter Johansen
Robots in Depth
23 Aug 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Søren Peter Johansen from DTI about implementing robotic solutions....
Robots in Depth with Hans Kimblad
Robots in Depth
09 Aug 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Hans Kimblad about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing....
Robots in Depth with Sven Schmidt-Rohr
Robots in Depth
25 Jul 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Sven Schmidt-Rohr about how he always wanted to be a robotics entrepreneur and how ArtiMinds makes programming robots easier....
Robots in Depth with Spring Berman
Robots in Depth
29 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Spring Berman about her extensive experience in the field of swarm robotics....
Robots in Depth with Dirk Thomas
Robots in Depth
21 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Dirk Thomas about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation....
Robots in Depth with Andrew Graham
Robots in Depth
14 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andrew Graham about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do things no other system can....
Robots in Depth with Walter Wohlkinger
Robots in Depth
07 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Walter Wohlkinger from Blue Danube Robotics about their Airskin, a safety sensor covering robots and machines....
Robots in Depth with Anouk Wipprecht
Robots in Depth
01 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Anouk Wipprecht, a Dutch FashionTech Designer who incorporates technology and robotics into fashion. She thinks that “Fashion lacks Micro...
Robots in Depth with Paul Ekas
Robots in Depth
20 May 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Paul Ekas about his EZGripper and how he designed it to be low cost, lightweight, robust and to offer reliable gripping of small and large ...
Robots in Depth with Linda Thayer
Robots in Depth
07 May 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Linda Thayer about how to apply for, maintain and use patents....
Robots in Depth with Frank Tobe
Robots in Depth
26 Apr 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Frank Tobe about his experience covering robotics in The Robot Report and creating the index Robo-Stox....
Robots in Depth with David Johan
Robots in Depth
18 Apr 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with David Johan, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Robotics....
Robots in Depth with Harsha Prahlad
Robots in Depth
04 Apr 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Harsha Prahlad, CoFounder and Chief Technology and Products Officer at Grabit Inc. Harsha talks about his novel gripper for soft goods manu...
Robots in Depth with Franziska Kirstein
Robots in Depth
30 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Franziska Kirstein, Human-Robot Interaction Expert and Project Manager at Blue Ocean Robotics, about her experience as a linguist working w...
Robots in Depth with Justin Werfel
Robots in Depth
21 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Justin Werfel, senior research scientist at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering....
Robots in Depth with Jana Tumova
Robots in Depth
02 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Jana Tumova, Assistant Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, about formal verification of computer systems and synthesizing c...
