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Active touch, with Tony Prescott and Elio Tuci
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...
09 October 2009, by
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032
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Brain-machine interfaces, with Charles Higgins and Steve Potter
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...
14 August 2009, by
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030
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Soft machines, with Richard Jones
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...
17 July 2009, by
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029
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From animals to automation, with Markus Fischer and Victor Zykov
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 ...
03 July 2009, by
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025
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Collective coverage and self-assembly, with Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross
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...
08 May 2009, by
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Giant roaming creatures, with Theo Jansen and Jaimie Mantzel
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...
24 April 2009, by
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ep.
013
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Robots Podcast: Bio-inspired locomotion, with Robert Full and Auke Ijspeert
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...
21 November 2008, by
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011
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Jumping and crawling in millirobots, with Sarah Bergbreiter and Aaron Hoover
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...
24 October 2008, by
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ep.
007
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Bacteria-propelled microrobots, with Metin Sitti and Mark Schattner
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...
29 August 2008, by
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