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Robohub Podcast is a non-profit robotics podcast where we interview experts in robotics, including researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and venture capitalists. Our interviewers are researchers, entrepreneurs, and engineers involved in robotics. Our interviews are technical and, often, get into the details of what we are discussing, but we make an effort to have our interviews understandable to a general audience.

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Active touch, with Tony Prescott and Elio Tuci

Podcast team 09 Oct 2009

Link to audio file (31:14)In today’s show we’ll be dabbing at the subject of active touch. Our first guest, Tony Prescott from the University of Sheffield in the UK has been looking at how...

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Emergent communication, with Sara Mitri and Jürgen Jost

Podcast team 25 Sep 2009

Link to audio file (33:19)In today’s episode we deal with the question of communication, what it means, where it comes from, and how it can be applied to robots. We first speak with Sara Mitri, ...

034

Celebrating invention, with Dean Kamen

Podcast team 11 Sep 2009

Link to audio file (38:49)In this episode we have an exclusive interview with Dean Kamen, considered by some as the greatest inventor alive. He’s the father of the insulin pump, the Segway and t...

033

Robot-assisted surgery, with Rainer Konietschke and Woong Youn Chung

Podcast team 28 Aug 2009

Link to audio file (26:17)In this episode, we look at robots in the medical field, in particular those used in teleoperated surgery. We first speak with Rainer Konietschke from the German Aerospace Ce...

032

Brain-machine interfaces, with Charles Higgins and Steve Potter

Podcast team 14 Aug 2009

Link to audio file (47:59)In today’s show we’ll be speaking with two experts in the field of brain-machine interfaces. Our first guest, Charles Higgins from the University of Arizona tells...

031

Robots Podcast: Smart homes, with Roger Orpwood and Andrew Sixsmith

Podcast team 31 Jul 2009

Link to audio file (42:48)In today’s episode we look at how technology can improve the quality of life of people with dementia. Our first guest, Roger Orpwood, is the director of the Bath Instit...

030

Soft machines, with Richard Jones

Podcast team 17 Jul 2009

Link to audio file (28:14)In this episode we interview Richard Jones, Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield in the UK, on the future nanorobots inspired from biology: Soft Machines. Afte...

029

From animals to automation, with Markus Fischer and Victor Zykov

Podcast team 03 Jul 2009

Link to audio file (38:22)In this episode we look at how FESTO, a worldwide leader in automation technology, has been copying nature to design bionic robots such as artificial penguins, manta-rays or ...

028

Celebrity robots brought to life, with Fred Barton

Podcast team 19 Jun 2009

Link to audio file (45:19)In today’s episode we speak with celebrity robot maker Fred Barton who is best known as ROBOTMAN. As an expert in the Sci-Fi genre, he’ll be giving us an overview...

027

Autonomous city explorer, with Dirk Wollherr and Astrid Weiss

Podcast team 05 Jun 2009

Link to audio file (36:08)Today marks Robots’ 1-year anniversary, so Happy Birthday Robots!! In today’s show we talk about a fresh and unique project coming from the Technical University...

026

Robot actors at the theater, with Christian Denisart and Nicola Tomatis

Podcast team 22 May 2009

Link to audio file (42:11)In this week’s show we take a closer look at Robots, not the podcast but the play that has been playing to sold-out audiences in Switzerland over the last 3 weeks. We ...

025

Collective coverage and self-assembly, with Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross

Podcast team 08 May 2009

Link to audio file (38:39)In this episode we look in depth at two shades of robot coordination, multi-robot area coverage and self-assembling robots. Our first guest, Nikolaus Correll, is a postdoc a...

Giant roaming creatures, with Theo Jansen and Jaimie Mantzel

Podcast team 24 Apr 2009

Link to audio file (40:46)Today we’ll be speaking about art, engineering and freedom with two robot-artists building gigantic robots. Our first guest is Theo Jansen, a physics major turned arti...

023

The race to the moon, with William “Red” Whittaker

Podcast team 10 Apr 2009

Link to audio file (36:33)In this episode, we take-off for the moon with Prof. William “Red” Whittaker who is the director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University in the...

022

Learning with LEGO, with Chris Rogers and Liz Herron

Podcast team 27 Mar 2009

Link to audio file (39:22)In this episode we focus on engineering education at the elementary school level, and how robotics can play a key role in shaping the engineers of the future. We first speak ...

021

The REEM-B and HUBO humanoids, with Davide Faconti and Jun Ho Oh

Podcast team 13 Mar 2009

Link to audio file (40:01)In this episode we talk about humanoid robots, or robots that resemble me and you, at least in some shape or form. We first speak with Davide Faconti, leader of the REEM proj...

020

Robot ethics (Part 2), with Ronald Arkin

Podcast team 27 Feb 2009

Link to audio file (39:09)This episode closes a two-part special looking at ethical issues in robotics. Given the broad and controversial nature of this topic, we speak with two world-renowned experts...

019

Robot ethics (Part 1), with Noel Sharkey

Podcast team 13 Feb 2009

Link to audio file (44:17)In this episode we start a two-part special looking at ethical issues in robotics. Given the broad and controversial nature of this topic, we will speak with two world-renown...

018

Human-robot love, with David Levy and Kathleen Richardson

Podcast team 30 Jan 2009

Link to audio file (47:22)In this episode we look at a subject that doesn’t always come to mind when you think of robots: love and relationships. Our first guest David Levy is the author of the ...

Industrial robots in research, with Raúl Ordóñez

Podcast team 16 Jan 2009

Link to audio file (32:45)In this episode we talk to Raúl Ordóñez about his new Motoman Robotics Lab at the University of Dayton and the research he plans to do with his high profile industrial ro...

016

2008 New Year’s special, with Dan Kara, Terry Fong, Dario Floreano, Steve Rainwater and Minoru Asada

Podcast team 02 Jan 2009

Link to audio file (34:17)For our New Year’s episode, we’ll be giving you an overview of the trends in robotics for 2008 and an insight into next year’s developments with five expert...

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Robot toys, with Mark Tilden

Podcast team 19 Dec 2008

Link to audio file (36:53)In the spirit of the holiday season, today’s episode is all about robots as toys. We speak to Mark Tilden, robot designer at WowWee Robotics, about designing robots for...

014

Robot musicians, with Gil Weinberg and Atsuo Takanishi

Podcast team 05 Dec 2008

Link to audio file (41:13)This episode focuses on robot musicians, starting with our first guest Gil Weinberg who is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Tech. With his wooden robot drummer Hai...

013

Robots Podcast: Bio-inspired locomotion, with Robert Full and Auke Ijspeert

Podcast team 21 Nov 2008

Link to audio file (36:53)In our 13th episode we talk with biologist Robert Full from UC Berkeley about the research he’s been doing on animal locomotion and how his insights have been inspiring...

012

Androids, human presence and the uncanny valley, with Hiroshi Ishiguro

Podcast team 07 Nov 2008

Link to audio file (32:40)This episode covers android science and human-robot interactions with expert Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka. After the interview we feature the last installment of Jack Graham&...

011

Jumping and crawling in millirobots, with Sarah Bergbreiter and Aaron Hoover

Podcast team 24 Oct 2008

Link to audio file (37:20)This episode concentrates on how to scale down robots to the size of our creepy crawly friends, insects. Sarah Bergbreiter tells us about the micromachining techniques requi...

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Warehouse robots, with Raffaello D’Andrea

Podcast team 10 Oct 2008

Link to audio file (39:03)In this episode we sit down with Raffaello D’Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and founding member of Kiva Systems, to spe...

009

Swarming autonomous underwater vehicles, with Navinda Kottege and Marc Sherman

Podcast team 26 Sep 2008

Link to audio file (31:06)In this show we dive into the world of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with an emphasis on the challenges when having to localize and communicate in the deep blue. Whil...

008

An uncertain revolution, with Claudio Mattiussi

Podcast team 12 Sep 2008

Link to audio file (38:11)In this episode we dive into the revolution brought on by the field of probabilistic robotics with Claudio Mattiussi who is Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent...

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Bacteria-propelled microrobots, with Metin Sitti and Mark Schattner

Podcast team 29 Aug 2008

Link to audio file (25:19)In this episode we look at bacteria-propelled microrobots which, in the future, could be used for sensing or drug delivery inside the liquid environments of the human body, s...

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