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    Improving Perception through Interaction, with Carolyn Matl

    Dr. Carolyn Matl, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, explains why Interactive Perception and soft tactile sensors are critical for manipulating challenging objects such as liquids, grains, and dough.
    21 April 2022, by
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    Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics, with Travis Schneider

    Robohub Podcast · Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Travis Schneider, Business Development Manager at RE2 Robotics, focusing on their work on mobi...
    04 August 2021, by

    IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute
    Interesting discussion with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, CEO of the Terasaki Institute, and one of the pioneers of the Bioengineering field. Prof. Ali’s journey from Harvard and UCLA to the Terasaki In...
    26 January 2021, by

    IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?
    Interesting discussion with Hod Lipson, head of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University in New York. Can robots be self-aware? Can they design other robots and self-repair? Why should we evolve rob...
    13 January 2021, by
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    Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov

    Robohub Podcast · Multisensory Perception In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Jivko Sinapov, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, about his work on beh...
    15 November 2020, by
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    304

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    Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson

    In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Dr. Heather Culbertson, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, about her work in haptics. Dr. Culbertson...
    17 February 2020, by



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    303

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    Fostering Creativity: RSS Pioneers and the YOLO Robot, with Patrícia Alves-Oliveira

    In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Human-Robot Interaction researcher Patrícia Alves-Oliveira. Alves-Oliveira tells us about the upcoming RSS Pioneers workshop at the 2020 Robotics: Science and...
    02 February 2020, by
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    296

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    Robust Robotics and the Quest for Intelligence, with Nicholas Roy

    In this episode Lilly Clark interviews Nicholas Roy, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, about the Quest for Intelligence initiative and his research in robust robotics. Roy discusses ho...
    29 October 2019, by
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    A Mathematical Approach To Robot Ethics, with Robert Williamson

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Robert Williamson, a Professor at the Australian National University, who speaks about a mathematical approach to ethics. This approach can get us started impl...
    01 October 2018, by
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    DJI’s RoboMaster FPS Competition, with Shuo Yang

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Shuo Yang about DJI's RoboMaster first-person shooter (FPS) competition, a competition designed to get people excited about robotics. For the competition, univ...
    21 July 2018, by
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    256

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    Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić

    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matarić, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics. Socially ass...
    19 March 2018, by
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    ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest conference an...
    10 December 2017, by

    How artificial intelligence will transform higher education
    As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the wa...
    09 August 2017, by and
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    Robot Academy, with Peter Corke

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke, Professor of Robotics at the Queensland University of Technology and Director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, about Robot Academy. Rob...
    22 July 2017, by

    The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
    The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
    30 June 2017, by

    Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology
    A subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington. Patrick Bennett, CC BY-ND By Eran Klein, University of Washington and Katherine Pratt, Unive...
    22 June 2017, by

    It’s not just self-driving cars; trains could soon be autonomous too!
    Judging by the frequency that self-driving cars are mentioned in scientific discussions and the media, they are not only the next big thing, but might actually take over as our main means of transport...
    20 June 2017, by

    How to reduce Zika using flying robots
    Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at wo...
    15 June 2017, by

    Teaching ROS quickly to students
    Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of...
    09 June 2017, by

    Kids celebrate robotics at RoboFes 2017
    Robo Done, the robotic academy franchise for kids from Osaka, Japan, celebrated Japan’s Day of the Children on the 5th of May at their annual event, Robot Festival 2017 or RoboFes. The event welcome...
    17 May 2017, by

    LIDAR vs RADAR: A detailed comparison
    I was recently asked about the differences between RADAR and LIDAR. I gave the generic answer about LIDAR having higher resolution and accuracy than RADAR. And RADAR having a longer range and performi...
    09 May 2017, by

    Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym on ROS Development Studio
    Imagine how easy it would be to learn skating, if only it doesn’t hurt everytime you fall. Unfortunately, we, humans,  don’t have that option. Robots, however, can now “learn” their skills o...
    08 May 2017, by

    TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
    Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a mini-van (you can read my original post here). Now, at DIYwalke...
    04 May 2017, by

    World Book Day 2017: 20 robot related books to inspire kids and teens
    Happy International World Book and Copyright Day! It's a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading, held annually on 23 April---a symbolic date coinciding with the anniversary of the ...
    23 April 2017, by

    PLA vs. ABS: What’s the difference?
    PLA and ABS are the 2 most common FDM desktop printing materials. Both are thermoplastics, meaning they enter a soft and moldable state when heated and then return to a solid when cooled. Via the FDM ...
    14 April 2017, by

    Envisioning the future of robotics
    Robotics is said to be the next technological revolution. Many seem to agree that robots will have a tremendous impact over the following years, and some are heavily betting on it. Companies are inves...
    16 March 2017, by

    Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?
    Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...
    09 March 2017, by

    Cargo drones deliver in the Amazon rainforest
    The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines an...
    16 February 2017, by

    Python programming your NAO robot
    These videos aim to teach you how to begin programming your NAO with Python. The NAO can be programmed using several programming languages, including C++, MATLAB, JAVA, LabVIEW and Python. Instead of...
    09 February 2017, by

    Building character AI through machine learning
    Modern character AI could be better. I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...
    01 February 2017, by

     
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