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ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 1 of 2), with Scania, PAL Robotics, Husqvarna and AnyBody Technology
Audrow Nash
12 Jun 2016
This is the first of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s...
Talking Machines: Spark and ICML, with Sinead Williamson
Talking Machines
06 Jun 2016
In episode eleven of season two, we talk about the machine learning toolkit Spark and answer a listener question about the difference between Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and Interna...
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INNOROBO 2015 Showcase, with RB 3D, BALYO, Kawada Robotics, Partnering Robotics, and IRT Jules Verne
Audrow Nash
29 May 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at last year’s INNOROBO, a conference that showcases innovation in robotics....
Talking Machines: Computational learning theory and machine learning for understanding cells, with Aviv Regev
Talking Machines
24 May 2016
In episode ten of season two, we talk about Computational Learning Theory and Probably Approximately Correct Learning originated by Professor Leslie Valiant of SEAS at Harvard, we take a listener ques...
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Ladybird, with James Underwood
Podcast team
21 May 2016
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews James Underwood from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics. Underwood discusses his work on an autonomous vegetable harvesting ...
Talking Machines: Sparse Coding and MADBITS, with Clement Farabet
Talking Machines
09 May 2016
In episode nine of season two, we talk about sparse coding, take a listener question about the next big demonstration for AI after AlphaGo. Plus we talk with Clement Farabet about MADBITS and the work...
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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Abate De Mey
01 May 2016
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
Talking Machines: Remembering David MacKay
Talking Machines
22 Apr 2016
Recently Professor David MacKay passed away. We’ll spend this episode talking about his extensive body of work and its impacts. We’ll also talk with Philipp Hennig, a research group leader at the ...
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Mecha Monsters, with Silas Adekunle
Audrow Nash
17 Apr 2016
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Silas Adekunle, Co-founder and CEO of Reach Robotics. They speak about Reach Robotics’ first product, Mecha Monsters: legged, gaming robo...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and society, with Neil Lawrence
Talking Machines
08 Apr 2016
Episode seven of season two is a little different than our usual episodes; Ryan and Katherine returned from a conference where they got to talk with Neil Lawrence from University of Sheffield about so...
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Hadrian Bricklaying Robot, with Mark Pivac
Ron Vanderkley
02 Apr 2016
Transcript below.In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mark Pivoc from FastBrick about Hadrian the bricklaying robot. Fastbrick is an Australian robotics firm aiming to disrupt the local bric...
Talking Machines: Software and statistics for machine learning, with Rob Tibshirani
Talking Machines
27 Mar 2016
In episode six of season two, we talk about how to build software for machine learning (and what the roadblocks are), we take a listener question about how to start exploring a new dataset, plus, we t...
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Satellite Assembly in Space, with John Lymer
Andrew Vaziri
19 Mar 2016
In this episode, Andrew Vaziri speaks with John Lymer, Chief Architect of Robotics and Automation at SSL. They highlight key programs in space robotics from the 1980s through to SSL’s current progra...
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Agilic and PiBot, with Harry Gee
Abate De Mey
14 Mar 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Harry Gee, founder of the robotics startup Agilic. Harry discusses his company and the robots he designed using the Raspberry Pi and Pi zero. He then discusse...
Talking Machines: AI safety and the legacy of Bletchley Park, with Nick Patterson
Talking Machines
29 Feb 2016
In episode four of season two, we talk about some of the major issues in AI safety, (and how they’re not really that different from the questions we ask whenever we create a new tool.) We take a lis...
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Automation and Employment, with Michael Osborne
Andrew Vaziri
20 Feb 2016
In this episode Andrew Vaziri speaks with Mike Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. They discuss how advancements in artificial intelligence may change the w...
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The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge, with Curtis Carson
Andrew Vaziri
06 Feb 2016
Transcript belowIn this episode, Andrew Vaziri speaks with Curtis Carson, Head of Research and Technology in Industrial Strategy and Systems at Airbus. They speak about the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge ...
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...
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200th Episode Special, with Rodney Brooks
Podcast team
22 Jan 2016
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In this episode, we celebrate our 200th episode! That’s over 6000 minutes of robot goodness and nearly 8 years releasing interviews with your favorite roboticists. The podcast...
Flying robots, with Dario Floreano (Part two)
Last month we caught up with Dario Floreano, the head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Here we continue our discussion,...
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Microrobots for Harvesting Crystals, with Simone Schürle
Audrow Nash
09 Jan 2016
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Simone Schürle, advisor and co-founder of MagnebotiX, about using small robots to harvest crystals. These crystals can be used to infer at...
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...
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Construction Drilling, with Konrad Fagertun
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2015
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In this episode Audrow Nash interviews Konrad Fagertun, Chief Operating Officer of nLink in Norway....
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Multi-Agent Systems and Human-Swarm Interaction, with Magnus Egerstedt
Andrew Vaziri
11 Dec 2015
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In this episode, Andrew Vaziri interviews Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at Georiga Tech, about his research in swarm robotics and multi-agent systems. They discuss privacy and secur...
Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh
Wyss Institute
01 Dec 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
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Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams
Ron Vanderkley
30 Nov 2015
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...
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)....
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ICRA 2015 Company Showcase, with Jens Hurley, Michael Ferguson, Simon DiMaio, François Boucher and Andrew Lewis
Audrow Nash
14 Nov 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies from the International Conferences on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) showcase. The companies span the following applicatio...
Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
10 Nov 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 interview, Andra Keay, directo...
Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood
Wyss Institute
09 Nov 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno
Talking Machines
06 Nov 2015
In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities, and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of liter...
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Embodied Quadrotors, with Davide Scaramuzza
Audrow Nash
31 Oct 2015
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In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Zurich and leader of the Robotics and Perception Group, about ...
Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the challenge of building 1,024 Kilobots
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
30 Oct 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 interview, Michael Rubenstein d...
Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal
Wyss Institute
28 Oct 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
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...
Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research
Talking Machines
26 Oct 2015
In episode twenty two we talk with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England about his work using crowdsourcing in Machine Learning, we take a look at the workshops being presented at NIPS this ye...
