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Robots in Depth: Grishin Robotics’ Valery Komissarova on getting funding
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
23 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, Valery Komissarova ...
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The Open Academic Robot Kit, with Raymond Sheh
Ron Vanderkley
16 Oct 2015
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Raymond Sheh, who is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing at Curtin University and head of the Intelligent Robots Group....
Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
14 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, Tully Foote -- ROS...
Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris
Talking Machines
09 Oct 2015
In episode twenty one  we talk with Quaid Morris of the University of Toronto, who is using machine learning to find a better way to treat cancers. ...
Robots in Depth: Melonee Wise on building robots, and robot companies
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
06 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, Per talks to Melo...
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192
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Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson
Audrow Nash
02 Oct 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...
Talking Machines: The Master Algorithm, with UW’s Pedro Domingos
Talking Machines
25 Sep 2015
In episode 20 we chat with Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington, who has just published a book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World....
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 ...
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191
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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias
Audrow Nash
18 Sep 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
Interview with Danica Kragic
In this wide ranging interview, Danica Kragic, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and General Chair of ICRA 2016, discusses the nature of collaborative research, shares her...
Talking Machines: Strong AI and autoencoders, with Hugo Larochelle
Talking Machines
14 Sep 2015
In episode nineteen we chat with Hugo Larochelle about his work on unsupervised learning, the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), and his teaching style....
Coming of age: Clearpath’s Ryan Gariepy on growing a robotics startup
Hallie Siegel
01 Sep 2015
Launched in 2009 by a group of Waterloo engineering students, Clearpath's unmistakeable bright yellow and black robots have become synonymous with unmanned vehicle research in university research ...
Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade
Talking Machines
27 Aug 2015
In episode eighteen we talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work that touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning....
Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten
Talking Machines
14 Aug 2015
In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of  Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology....
Machine learning for sports & realtime predictions, w Microsoft Research’s Danny Tarlow
Talking Machines
31 Jul 2015
In episode sixteen we chat with Danny Tarlow of Microsoft Research Cambridge (in the UK not MA). Danny (along with Chris Maddison and Tom Minka) won best paper at NIPS 2014 for his paper A* Sampling. ...
Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling
Talking Machines
17 Jul 2015
In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine ...
Talking Machines: On ‘solving intelligence’, with DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2015
In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing o...
Talking Machines: Data and machine learning in advertising, with Claudia Perlich
Talking Machines
19 Jun 2015
In episode thirteen we talk with Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist at Dstillery. We talk about her work using machine learning in digital advertising and her approach to data in competitions....
Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng
Talking Machines
04 Jun 2015
In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....
Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence on privacy in the age of machine learning
Talking Machines
22 May 2015
In episode eleven we chat with Neil Lawrence from the University of Sheffield. We talk about the problems of privacy in the age of machine learning, and the responsibilities that come with using mach...
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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti
Audrow Nash
15 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...
Talking Machines: Interdisciplinary data, with David Blei
Talking Machines
07 May 2015
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In Episode 10 we talk with David Blei of Columbia University. We talk about his work on latent dirichlet allocation, topic models, the PhD program in data that he’s helping to create at C...
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bStem, with Todd Hylton
Audrow Nash
01 May 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Todd Hylton, Senior Vice President at Brain Corporation, about neuromorphic computers. They discuss the robotics development board bStem, which appro...
The real soft robots that inspired Baymax, with Chris Atkeson
Helmut Hauser
28 Apr 2015
Baymax, the lovable, inflatable robot star of Disney’s recent hit, Big Hero 6, is far from a movie fantasy. With their soft cushiony bodies, robots like Baymax have very real prospects as future car...
Talking Machines: Developing effective medicine by predicting molecular activity, with George Dahl
Talking Machines
24 Apr 2015
In episode nine we talk with George Dahl, of  the University of Toronto, about his work on the Merck molecular activity challenge on kaggle and speech recognition. George recently successfully defend...
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180
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Soft Robotics Toolkit, with Donal Holland
Ron Vanderkley
17 Apr 2015
In this podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks to Donal Holland of Harvard University about his team’s work on the Soft Robotics Toolkit....
Talking Machines: Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton
Talking Machines
09 Apr 2015
In episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning to better understand how it’s d...
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179
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European Robotics, with European Robotics Forum, Cécile Huet and Uwe Haass
Sabine Hauert
03 Apr 2015
In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews main stakeholders in European Robotics at the European Robotics Forum in Vienna....
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
Talking Machines
26 Mar 2015
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester
Audrow Nash
20 Mar 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
Talking Machines
17 Mar 2015
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
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Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing, with Kurosh Madani
Audrow Nash
06 Mar 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Kurosh Madani from the University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC) about neural networks. The talk begins with an overview of neural networks before discussing thei...
Livestream: Rodney Brooks, Abhinav Gupta, Andrew McAfee on AI and the rise of robots
Robohub Editors
27 Feb 2015
Livestream of the Council of Foreign Relations' Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology starting 02/27/2015 at 12:45 EST....
Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun
Talking Machines
26 Feb 2015
In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...
The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio
In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not justÂ...
Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
Talking Machines
12 Feb 2015
In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
