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    ‘It’s a reminder we are making a difference in the world’: Girls of Steel follow up
    The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to engage more young women into engineering. Over the last few years, we’ve heard what it’s like to be part of ...
    14 December 2016, by and

    One being for two origins: A new perspective on roboethics
    The concept One Being for Two Origins, from the teachings of Buddha, considers the unification of technology, nature, and human beings. It emerges from the theory of the three aspects: The values of t...
    08 December 2016, by

    When robots become art: Interview with Yi-Wei Keng
    How can robotics help to enhance the development of the modern arts? Japan’s famous playwright, stage director Oriza Hirata and leading roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro launched the “Robot Theater Proj...
    29 November 2016, by

    In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
    Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
    07 October 2016, by

    Meet the pilots preparing for Cybathlon: Claudia Breidbach
    Claudia Breidbach is pilot with Touch Bionics in the Powered Arm Prosthesis Race. When Claudia isn't preparing for the Cybathlon, she can be found competing with her skydiving team, KARMA....
    08 September 2016, by

    Surveying flooded mines with UNEXMIN: Interview with Norbert Zajzon
    The UNEXMIN project (Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines) started February 2016. It is an EU-funded project, from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Luís Lopes, from the La Palma...
    01 September 2016, by



    Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV
    By: Chris Bogdon The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from all over the globe to compete in an autonomous gro...
    08 August 2016, by

    A European perspective on robot law: Interview with Mady Delvaux-Stehres
    10 years after the release of the EURON Roboethics Roadmap and we are witnessing a technology revolution. In the last 10 years, we've seen: Google’s self-driving car, Amazon’s KIVA system, drone...
    15 July 2016, by

    Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat
    Samira Hayat is following her calling: She has been a member of the Mobile Systems research team at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems since 2012. Before that, she studied in Trento. Ma...
    13 April 2016, by

    Interview: Billion dollar brain with Professor Alois Knoll
    By: Abdul Montaqim Professor Knoll, one of the most influential roboticists in Europe, is currently the co-ordinator of the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (Echord), and one of...
    23 March 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches
    In episode five of season two, Ryan walks us through variational inference. We put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in...
    14 March 2016, by

    Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot
    By: Chris Bogdon Amir Degani is an assistant professor at Technion Institute of Technology and Avi Kahnani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Israeli robotics start-up Fresh Fruits Robotics. Together, they...
    08 March 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Robotics and machine learning music videos, with Michael Littman
    In episode three of season two, Ryan walks us through the Alpha Go results and answers a listeners' question about using Gaussian processes for classifications. Plus, we talk with Michael Littman of...
    17 February 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Gaussian processes and OpenAI, with IIya Sutskever
    In episode two of season two Ryan introduces us to Gaussian processes, we take a listener question on K-means. Plus, we talk with Ilya Sutskever the director of research for OpenAI. (For more from Ily...
    29 January 2016, by

    Turning the lens on robotics reporting: An interview with New York Times technology reporter John Markoff
    If you are working in the field of robotics or AI, you may be used to fielding calls from journalists wanting to better understand the technology. But not all journalists are created equal. Pulitzer-P...
    28 January 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Real human actions and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Jenn Wortman Vaughan
    In episode one of season two, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Women in Machine Learning (WiML) with its co-founder -- and our guest host for this episode -- Hanna Wallach of Microsoft Research....
    28 January 2016, by

    Interview with IJARS, with Howie Choset and Seth Hutchinson
    The IJARS team sat down at ICRA with two influential academics in robotics: Professor Howie Choset (Carnegie Mellon University) and Professor Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...
    05 January 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Probabilistic programming, with Ben Vigoda
    In episode twenty four we talk with Ben Vigoda about his work in probabilistic programming (everything from his thesis, to his new company)....
    26 November 2015, by

    Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard
    In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...
    27 October 2015, by

    Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics
    Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this first episode, Per speaks ...
    24 September 2015, by and

    Vecna’s Daniel Theobald: Setting standards for robots
    Vecna’s robotic logistics solutions are a family of autonomous mobile robots, built to operate within human-centric environments such as hospitals. In this in-depth interview, Daniel Theobald, the ...
    22 September 2015, by

    Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski
    At ConnectEd Studios we had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Marek Michalowski, a co-founder of BeatBots. BeatBots is the robotic design studio behind the Keepon, and creates dynamic robotic ...
    09 February 2015, by

    The CORAL group: Interview with Joydeep Biswas and Brian Coltin
    Our newest video interview features PhD student Joydeep Biswas, who works with Dr. Manuela Veloso’s CORAL research group, and scientist Brian Coltin, who is at NASA's Ames Intelligent Research g...
    26 November 2014, by

    Novel robots for gait and arm rehabilitation: Interview with Robert Riener
    In this pair of video lectures, Robert Riener presents his team's research efforts in the field of rehabilitation robotics, and describes the vision behind Cybathlon, the competition for robot-assist...
    07 November 2014, by

    Robotics then and now: Interview with Peter Corke
    In this interview, Peter Corke gives us a retrospective on the differences between the field of robotics now and when he just started his career 30 years ago, pointing out what strikes him as the most...
    31 October 2014, by

    Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda
    An international leader in the field of robotics and automation, Toshio Fukuda is best known for his pioneering work on micro robotics systems — including microsensors and micro actuators — a...
    07 January 2014, by

    Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
    Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the ...
    05 January 2014, by and

    Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
    Aisoy, a spanish robotics startup, is motivated by the goal of building intelligent, personal, "social" robots, which make our lives easier and funnier. Their robot, the Aisoy1, is their first step to...
    23 December 2013, by

    Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education
    The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into engineering. We've already heard what it's like to be part of an all-girls ro...
    27 September 2013, by , and

    Dmitry Grishin on evaluating robotic investment opportunities
    As part of our series on high-risk, high-reward robotics, and as a follow-up to his recent Robot's Podcast interview, I asked entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dmitry Grishin to talk to us about how...
    25 July 2013, by and

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