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Robot Talk Episode 170 – Robots in the real world, with Daniela Shchegelskaya


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13 November 2026



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Claire chatted to Daniela Shchegelskaya from the University of Twente about getting robots to operate reliably in safety-critical environments.

Daniela Shchegelskaya is an electronics and robotics engineer specialising in autonomous systems, control engineering, and Al-driven robotics for industrial and safety-critical environments. She works on deploying real-world autonomous robots beyond lab conditions, focusing on reliability, connectivity, and system-level design. At Elimpus, she works on the integration of Boston Dynamics’ Spot for inspections in live power substations, including autonomous navigation, network connectivity, remote diagnostics, data collection and system-level reliability.




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