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Rethink Robotics, with Rodney Brooks

  05 Oct 2012
Link to audio file (34:39) Link to transcript In today’s episode we speak with Rodney Brooks at the offices of Rethink Robotics about their first product Baxter, his ambition to revolutionize manu...

BEAM Robotics, with Mark Tilden

  21 Sep 2012
Link to audio file (34:52)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Mark Tilden, about the history before WowWee‘s RoboSapien and FemiSapien and about his belief that bottom up BE...

Future cities, with Matthias Kohler

  07 Sep 2012
Link to audio file (38:04)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Matthias Kohler, faculty at ETHZ and renowned architect, about his work in robotic architecture at the Future Cities Labo...

Robotics festival, with Francesco Mondada

  24 Aug 2012
Link to audio file (35:00)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Francesco Mondada, organizer of the Robotics Festival at EPFL that gathers over 15’000 visitors for hands-on wo...

Field robotics, with Salah Sukkarieh

  10 Aug 2012
Link to audio file (29:22)Link to transcriptIn this episode, we talk to Salah Sukkarieh, Director of Research and Innovation at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR). He gives us an overview...

JPL Open House 2012, with Tod Litwin, Megan Richardson, Kit Kennedy, Mike Watkins and Dimitri Zarzhitsky

  27 Jul 2012
Link to audio file (28:07)In today’s show we bring you to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Open House, just in time to prepare for the landing of the Curiosity Mars Rover in less tha...

Launching startups, with Andra Keay

  13 Jul 2012
Link to audio file (40:32)Today we talk with Andra Keay, founder of Robot Launch Pad, robotics startup accelerator based in Silicon Valley, about latest events, lean startup methodology, funding, and ...

Knowledge engineering, with Mary-Anne Williams

  29 Jun 2012
Link to audio file (31:50)In this episode, we talk to Mary-Anne Williams, knowledge engineer and roboticist from the University of Technology in Sydney Australia (UTS). Her work focuses on cognitive m...

Swiss robotics, with Dario Floreano

  15 Jun 2012
Link to audio file (20:20)In this episode we talk to Dario Floreano, director of the Swiss National Center of Competence for Research (NCCR) in Robotics that gathers leading experts in the field worki...

Robotic fish and mannequins, with Maarja Kruusmaa and Diana Saarva

  01 Jun 2012
Link to audio file (53:13)In today’s episode we talk to Maarja Kruusmaa about robotic fish and the robotic mannequin they are developing at Fits.me, alongside with Diana Saarva, the COO of Fits....

The future of robot companions, with Paolo Dario

  18 May 2012
Link to audio file (29:34)In this interview recorded at the Robotdalen Robotics Innovation Challenge, Professor Paolo Dario talks to Per about 3 conceptual waves of innovation, starting with industria...

Robopocalypse, with Daniel Wilson

  04 May 2012
Link to audio file (26:18)In this episode we talk to New York Times best selling author Daniel Wilson about one of his latest books, Robopocalypse....

Bringing them to market, with Steven Cousins and Roland Siegwart

  20 Apr 2012
Link to audio file (26:07)Following up on Episode 99, this episode features Steven Cousins and Roland Siegwart, whom we had the pleasure to meet at the SCHUNK Expert Days, organized by SCHUNK GmbH thi...

History and outlook, with George Bekey and Rodney Brooks

  06 Apr 2012
Link to audio file (56:00)In today’s episode we speak with two authorities in robotics, George Bekey and Rodney Brooks about the last 50 years of robotics, the ongoing robot revolution and futur...
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Dynamic systems, with Raffaello D’Andrea

  23 Mar 2012
Link to audio file (31:06)Link to transcriptTo celebrate our 100th episode, we welcome Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor at ETHZ and co-founder of Kiva Systems....
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099

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Dexterous manipulation and morphogenesis, with Bruno Siciliano and Rolf Pfeifer

  09 Mar 2012
Link to audio file (31:20)The 5th edition of the SCHUNK Expert Days, organized by SCHUNK GmbH from February 29 – March 1, once again brought together renown roboticists, and culminated in enrich...
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098

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Self-organizing systems, with Radhika Nagpal

  24 Feb 2012
Link to audio file (43:40)In today’s episode we focus on self-organizing systems in modular and swarm robotics with Radhika Nagpal, director of the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at the ...
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097

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Senseable robots, with Carlo Ratti,

  10 Feb 2012
Link to audio file (31:22)In today’s episode we look at some of the work done by the Senseable City Lab. We’ll be talking to Carlo Ratti, the director of the Lab, about two of the Lab̵...
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096

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Advances in bipedal locomotion, with Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Felipe Brandão Cavalcanti

  27 Jan 2012
Link to audio file (17:09)In this episode we talk to Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the University of Edinburgh about the recent progress in walking robotics. We then speak with Felipe Brandão Cavalcan...
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095

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From research to industry in the AUV market, with David Lane

  13 Jan 2012
Link to audio file (52:21)Today David Lane from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh talks about his journey from research to business and back. He talks about how he got started in offshore work and r...
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094

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Best of 2011, with the Robots Podcast team

  30 Dec 2011
Link to audio file (15:49) In this episode, the Robots Podcast team looks at the robots and technologies that shaped 2011. We’ll be discussing industrial robots, cloud robotics, soft robots, ...
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093

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Turning robots into products, with Erin Rapacki

  16 Dec 2011
Link to audio file (59:06)In today’s episode we look at robots made by Adept Technology Inc. with Product Marketing Manager, Erin Rapacki. She tells us about what it takes to make robots a produ...
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092

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Robotics roadmaps – USA, with Henrik Christensen

  02 Dec 2011
Link to audio file (13:04)In today’s episode we discuss the national funding strategies of the USA, as a part of our special series on Robotics Roadmaps worldwide. Our first episode on the subject l...
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091

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Connectors & modular robots, with Martin Nilsson

  18 Nov 2011
Link to audio file (44:00)In today’s show we hear from our new collaborator, Per Sjoborg who is the founder of Flexibility Envelope, a blog on self-reconfiguring modular robotics. He speaks to M...
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090

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Made in Brazil, with Marcelo Becker and Marcel de Sena Dall’Agnol

  04 Nov 2011
Link to audio file (28:29)In today’s show, we take you all the way to Brazil. Marcelo Becker from the University of São Paulo (USP) talks to us about how mobile robots are going to help change ...
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089

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Demonstrations at IROS, with Péter Fankhauser and Mike Rubenstein

  21 Oct 2011
Link to audio file (28:47)In today’s show, we hear about two demonstrations that caught our attention at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Péter Fa...
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088

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IROS exhibit hall, with companies at IROS 2011

  07 Oct 2011
Link to audio file (01:02:42)In today’s show we take you around the Exhibit Hall of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) that took place in San Francisc...
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087

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Educational robotics, with Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat and Fanny Riedo

  23 Sep 2011
Link to audio file (35:16)In today’s show, we look at the playful field of educational robotics. We start by talking to Dr. Francesco Mondada, the leader of the MOBOTS group at EPFL, about his g...
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086

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Robot art (Part 3), with Leonel Moura and Ken Rinaldo

  09 Sep 2011
Link to audio file (54:28)This episode is the last of this three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and c...
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085

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Robot art (Part 2), with Bill Vorn and Louis-Philippe Demers

  26 Aug 2011
Link to audio file (54:53)This episode is the second of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and cr...
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084

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Robot art (Part 1), with Nicolas Reeves and Stelarc

  11 Aug 2011
Link to audio file (01:01:58)This episode is the first of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and ...
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083

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Our favorite robots, with The Robots Podcast team

  29 Jul 2011
Link to audio file (26:59) The ROBOTS team has grown steadily over the years, filling its ranks with robot enthusiasts from Switzerland, USA, Greece, UK, Brazil and Japan. We take care of everythin...
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082

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Demining and defusing, with Frédéric Guerne and Paul Bosscher

  15 Jul 2011
Link to audio file (46:31)In this episode we speak with Frédéric Guerne, director of Digger DTR, and with Paul Bosscher, chief robotics engineer at Harris Corp., about robots which assist us in demi...
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081

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The Mind Machine Project, with Newton Howard

  01 Jul 2011
Link to audio file (41:58)In this episode we speak with Newton Howard, director of the Mind Machine Project and research scientist at MIT....
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080

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Schunk manipulators, with Henrik Schunk

  17 Jun 2011
Link to audio file (23:21)In this episode we speak with Henrik Schunk, Managing Partner of SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG and Chairman of EUnited Robotics....
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079

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The Bilibot Project, with Garratt Gallagher

  03 Jun 2011
Link to audio file (24:12)In today’s episode we talk about a new generation of affordable robots with the Bilibot project and its leader Garratt Gallagher from MIT....





 

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