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Talking Machines: ANGLICAN and Probabilistic Programming
In episode seventeen of season two, we get an introduction to Min Hashing, talk with Frank Wood the creator of ANGLICAN, about probabilistic programming and his new company, INVREA, and take a listene...
04 November 2016, by
Talking Machines
Talking Machines: Restricted Boltzmann Machines, with Eric Lander
In episode sixteen of season two, we get an introduction to Restricted Boltzmann Machines, take a listener question about tuning hyperparameters, plus, speak with Eric Lander of the Broad Institute....
09 September 2016, by
Talking Machines
Talking Machines: Generative art and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, with Doug Eck
In episode fifteen of season two, we talk about Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, take a listener question about unbalanced data, plus, speak with Doug Eck of Google’s Magenta project....
17 August 2016, by
Talking Machines
Talking Machines: Machine learning and the Flint water crisis, with Jake Abernethy
In episode fourteen of season two, we discuss Perturb-and-MAP and answer a listener question about classic artificial intelligence ideas being used in modern machine learning. Plus, we speak with Ja...
27 July 2016, by
Talking Machines
Talking Machines: Automatic Translation and t-SNE, with Hal Daume
In episode thirteen of season two, we talk about t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), take a listener question about statistical physics, plus, speak with Hal Daume of the University ...
08 July 2016, by
Talking Machines
Talking Machines: Fantasizing cats and data numbers, with Iain Murray
In episode twelve of season two, we discuss generative adversarial networks, take a listener question about using machine learning to improve or create products, and lastly, speak with Iain Murray fro...
20 June 2016, by
Talking Machines
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ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 1 of 2), with Scania, PAL Robotics, Husqvarna and AnyBody Technology
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...
12 June 2016, by
Audrow Nash
Talking Machines: Spark and ICML, with Sinead Williamson
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...
06 June 2016, by
Talking Machines
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INNOROBO 2015 Showcase, with RB 3D, BALYO, Kawada Robotics, Partnering Robotics, and IRT Jules Verne
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at last year’s INNOROBO, a conference that showcases innovation in robotics....
29 May 2016, by
Audrow Nash
Talking Machines: Computational learning theory and machine learning for understanding cells, with Aviv Regev
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...
24 May 2016, by
Talking Machines
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Ladybird, with James Underwood
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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 ...
21 May 2016, by
Podcast team
Talking Machines: Sparse Coding and MADBITS, with Clement Farabet
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...
09 May 2016, by
Talking Machines
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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
01 May 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Talking Machines: Remembering David MacKay
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 ...
22 April 2016, by
Talking Machines
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Mecha Monsters, with Silas Adekunle
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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...
17 April 2016, by
Audrow Nash
Talking Machines: Machine learning and society, with Neil Lawrence
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...
08 April 2016, by
Talking Machines
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Hadrian Bricklaying Robot, with Mark Pivac
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...
02 April 2016, by
Ron Vanderkley
Talking Machines: Software and statistics for machine learning, with Rob Tibshirani
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...
27 March 2016, by
Talking Machines
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Satellite Assembly in Space, with John Lymer
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...
19 March 2016, by
Andrew Vaziri
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Agilic and PiBot, with Harry Gee
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...
14 March 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Talking Machines: AI safety and the legacy of Bletchley Park, with Nick Patterson
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...
29 February 2016, by
Talking Machines
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Automation and Employment, with Michael Osborne
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...
20 February 2016, by
Andrew Vaziri
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The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge, with Curtis Carson
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 ...
06 February 2016, by
Andrew Vaziri
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
Hallie Siegel
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200th Episode Special, with Rodney Brooks
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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...
22 January 2016, by
Podcast team
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
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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...
09 January 2016, by
Audrow Nash
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
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)
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Construction Drilling, with Konrad Fagertun
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In this episode Audrow Nash interviews Konrad Fagertun, Chief Operating Officer of nLink in Norway....
27 December 2015, by
Audrow Nash
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Multi-Agent Systems and Human-Swarm Interaction, with Magnus Egerstedt
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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...
11 December 2015, by
Andrew Vaziri
