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TEDxHelvetia features soft robots
Sabine Hauert
08 Oct 2012
TEDxHelvetia, which took place at the Rolex Learning Center in Switzerland, featured two EPFL professors in the rising fields of soft robotics and stretchable electronics....
Human robot hand | NYTimes.com
Andra Keay
19 Sep 2012
MECHANICAL REACH Engineers at the University of Washington are working on a human-scale robot hand.
See on www.nytimes.com...
Artificial cerebellum
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
Researchers in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, and in the Department of Computer Architecture and Electronics, University of Almería, have developed a b...
LinkNotes: Biologically accurate walking robot legs
Andra Keay
09 Jul 2012
Their new biped robot features an improved leg design that models even more muscles. And it's already walking (though it relies on a babywalker-like support for balance). It stands 55 cm (22″) tall ...
Robert J. Wood interview
John Payne
03 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/WGR3SqPrOYs
Robert J. Wood (see also), Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Core Member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Universit...
Robotic fish and mannequins, with Maarja Kruusmaa and Diana Saarva
Podcast team
01 Jun 2012
Link to audio file (53:13)In today’s episode we talk to Maarja Kruusmaa about robotic fish and the robotic mannequin they are developing at Fits.me, alongside with Diana Saarva, the COO of Fits....
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098
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Self-organizing systems, with Radhika Nagpal
Podcast team
24 Feb 2012
Link to audio file (43:40)In today’s episode we focus on self-organizing systems in modular and swarm robotics with Radhika Nagpal, director of the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at the ...
iCub drums and crawls using bio-inspired control
Sabine Hauert
17 Jan 2012
Ever see a lizard effortlessly run up a wall?
Like most vertebrates, lizards are able to quickly adapt to new environments in a robust way thanks to a special type of movement generator. The idea is ...
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091
podcast
Connectors & modular robots, with Martin Nilsson
Per Sjöborg
18 Nov 2011
Link to audio file (44:00)In today’s show we hear from our new collaborator, Per Sjoborg who is the founder of Flexibility Envelope, a blog on self-reconfiguring modular robotics. He speaks to M...
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054
podcast
Modeling biology, with Barbara Webb and Steffen Wischmann
Podcast team
18 Jun 2010
Link to audio file (28:44)In today’s episode we speak about modeling biology using robots and how lessons learned through this process can feedback into robotics. Our first guest, Barbara Webb, ...
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048
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Chaos control, with Poramate Manoonpong and Alex Pitti
Podcast team
26 Mar 2010
Link to audio file (37:05)In this episode we focus on chaos control and ways to generate unpredictable behaviour. Our first guess, Poramate Manoonpong is a research associate at the Bernstein Center f...
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037
podcast
Slithering creatures, with Howie Choset and Erik Kyrkjebø
Podcast team
23 Oct 2009
Link to audio file (36:14)In this episode we’ll be speaking about snake robots slithering through pipes, disaster areas and even your body. We first speak with expert Howie Choset from Carnegie ...
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036
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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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032
podcast
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...
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030
podcast
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...
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029
podcast
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 ...
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025
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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...
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013
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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...
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011
podcast
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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007
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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...
