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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 ...
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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis
Audrow Nash
06 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...
Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy
Talking Machines
29 Jan 2015
On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
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Looney the Robot, with Hunter Lloyd
Audrow Nash
23 Jan 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Hunter Lloyd, who is a Professor of Robotics at Montana State University and a comedian. Hunter performs a comedy act for all ages with partner Looney, a NAO ...
Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice
Daniel Faggella
20 Jan 2015
Link to audio file (27:29), or listen on iTunes
James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS’s “Nova,” in additi...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever
Talking Machines
15 Jan 2015
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
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RoboThespian, with Will Jackson
Ron Vanderkley
10 Jan 2015
Transcript below
In today’s podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Will Jackson from Engineered Arts Limited about his team’s work making robot actors....
Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning
Talking Machines
01 Jan 2015
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
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3D SLAM, with John Leonard
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Professor John Leonard from MIT about his research on dense, object-based 3D Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)....
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Robotics in Theatre, Film, and Television, with Grant Imahara and Richard McKenna
Ron Vanderkley
13 Dec 2014
NEW: Transcript below.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mythbusters‘ Grant Imahara, and Richard McKenna from The Creature Technology Company about robotics in the film, television and th...
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Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson
Audrow Nash
28 Nov 2014
NEW: Full transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Edwin Olson, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, about the University’s 32-acre testing environment for auton...
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...
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Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle
Sabine Hauert
15 Nov 2014
Full transcript below.
In this episode, Sabine Hauert speaks with Travis Deyle, about his IROS-nominated work on RFID tags, his blog Hizook, and the career path that brought him from academia, to fou...
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...
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Nylon Fishing Line Actuator, with Geoff Spinks
Ron Vanderkley
31 Oct 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Geoffrey Spink from Wollogong University about his team’s work on artificial muscles....
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Engaging Girls in Robotics, with Hannah and Rachael Tipperman, Ross Mead and Elizabeth Croft
AJung Moon
17 Oct 2014
Earlier this year, the Robots Podcast team came across a story about two 17 year old twin sisters who started their own robotics outreach group. The story about the Tipperman sisters got us curious. W...
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Quest for Computer Vision, with Peter Corke
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about computer vision - the subject of his plenary talk at IROS 2014 (link to slides below). He begins ...
Attaining “embodiment” in brain-machine interface technologies: gTec’s Christoph Guger
Daniel Faggella
23 Sep 2014
Link to audio file (26:36), or listen on iTunes
In this interview TechEmergence talks to Dr. Christoph Guger, founder of gTec, a company that focuses on creating devices and parts for the field of...
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AirDog, with Edgars Rozentals
Audrow Nash
21 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edgars Rozentals, the CEO and Founder of Helico Aerospace Industries. They talk about Helico’s upcoming product ‘AirDog’, which is an autonomo...
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M-Blocks, with John Romanishin
Audrow Nash
05 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews John Romanishin from MIT, about his modular robotics project ‘M-Blocks’. M-Blocks are small cubes (5 cm on a side) that have no external actuators, yet the...
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Birdly, with Max Rheiner
Audrow Nash
22 Aug 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Max Rheiner from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) about his project Birdly. Birdly explores the experience of a bird in flight with several methods. Unl...
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Stiquito, with James Conrad
Audrow Nash
08 Aug 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews James Conrad, professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about the history of the autonomous walking robot, Stiquito....
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Ekso Bionics, with Russ Angold
Audrow Nash
26 Jul 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Russ Angold, co-founder and CTO of Ekso Bionics, about the wearable bionic suit, Ekso. This suit enables individuals with any amount of lower extremity weakness ...
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Cruise, with Kyle Vogt
Audrow Nash
11 Jul 2014
In this episode, we speak with Kyle Vogt, the CEO of Cruise. His company recently joined the “driverless revolution” with their release of RP-1. This system is a highway autopilot that can be ins...
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Computer-Assisted Surgery, with Karol Miller
Ron Vanderkley
27 Jun 2014
In this episode Ron Vanderkley speaks to Prof. Karol Miller, Director of the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab at the University of Western Australia, about medical robotics and how doctors and pat...
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A Code of Ethics for HRI Practitioners, with Laurel Riek
AJung Moon
14 Jun 2014
Human-robot interaction is a fascinating field of research in robotics. It also happens to be the field that is closely related to many of the ethical concerns raised with regards to interactive robot...
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Russian robotics, with Roman Luchin and Andrew Gryaznov
Sabine Hauert
30 May 2014
In this episode, Sabine speaks with Andrew Gryaznov, co-founder of Cubic Robotics and Roman Luchin, CEO of CyberTech Labs, about robotics in Russia. They provide us with an inside view on robotics edu...
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RoboRoach, with Bill Reith and Oliver Bendel
Ron Vanderkley
16 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Bill Reith, an engineer at Backyard Brains. The company develops RoboRoach, the world’s first commercially available “cyborg”, which was successfully ...
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Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke
Ron Vanderkley
02 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...
Schunk Manipulators, with Henrik A. Schunk
Per Sjöborg
20 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (27:49)In this episode Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company’s work in gripping technology, modular robotics and dexterous manipulation. They then look at se...
Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel
Podcast team
04 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (28:48)In this episode, we talk to Justin Werfel from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University about their latest paper published in Science o...
EU Robotics Week, with Fiorella Operto, Douwe Dresscher and Roko Tschakarow
Podcast team
22 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (41:00)The European Robotics Week 2013 featured 334 robotics related events in 24 countries and attracted more than 55’000 participants spanning all ages. To give us a snapsho...
Privacy, Google, and Big Deals, with Avner Levin
AJung Moon
07 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (33:53)
What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics? Since last December, Google alone has acquired a handful of companies in robotics, hom...
150th Episode Special, with Dario Floreano
Podcast team
21 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (26:55)
Did you know that Robohub started right here, with the podcast? This is our 150th podcast episode, and to celebrate we brought together the original team to reenact our ver...
Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino
Per Sjöborg
07 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (33:13)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...
