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Robot Talk Episode 97 – Robot swarms for environmental monitoring, with Pratap Tokekar
Claire chatted to Pratap Tokekar from the University of Maryland about how teams of robots with different capabilities can work together.
Pratap Tokekar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, and an Amazon Scholar. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the GRASP lab of University of Pennsylvania and later, an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. He has a degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the College of Engineering Pune in India and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. He received the Amazon Research Award in 2022, and the NSF CAREER award in 2020.
Robot Talk
is a weekly podcast that explores the exciting world of robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines.
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