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Talking Machines: Gaussian processes and OpenAI, with IIya Sutskever
Talking Machines
29 Jan 2016
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...
Turning the lens on robotics reporting: An interview with New York Times technology reporter John Markoff
Hallie Siegel
28 Jan 2016
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...
Talking Machines: Real human actions and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Jenn Wortman Vaughan
Talking Machines
28 Jan 2016
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....
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...
Talking Machines: Probabilistic programming, with Ben Vigoda
Talking Machines
26 Nov 2015
In episode twenty four we talk with Ben Vigoda about his work in probabilistic programming (everything from his thesis, to his new company)....
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...
Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
24 Sep 2015
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 ...
Vecna’s Daniel Theobald: Setting standards for robots
Audrow Nash
22 Sep 2015
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 ...
Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski
ConnectEd Studios
09 Feb 2015
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda
Hallie Siegel
07 Jan 2014
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...
Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella
05 Jan 2014
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 ...
Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
Mike Hamer
23 Dec 2013
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...
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...
Dmitry Grishin on evaluating robotic investment opportunities
Dmitry Grishin and Hallie Siegel
25 Jul 2013
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...
Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics
Rich Mahoney and Hallie Siegel
18 Jul 2013
As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 3): Interview with Minoru Asada
Florian Röhrbein
17 May 2013
Established experts in the field of robotics were recently interviewed by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. Motivated by the fact that indust...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro
Florian Röhrbein
22 Apr 2013
The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Techn...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks
Florian Röhrbein
05 Apr 2013
This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. W...
Robot startup series #4: Chris Anderson at CES 2013
Andra Keay
11 Jan 2013
Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and author of The Long Tail, Free and the newly published Makers, speaks about the new industrial revolution, how easy it is these d...
A conversation with NASA’s Dave Lavery
Eric Wind
09 Jan 2013
On Monday, I had the opportunity and pleasure to have a discussion with NASA's Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, Dave Lavery. During the course of the conversation, Dave answered my ques...
