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Robot choreographies
Sabine Hauert
27 Feb 2013
Today's TED talk features a troop of NAO robots performing an upbeat choreography....
Syfy about to unleash the Robot Combat League | EW.com
John Payne
26 Nov 2012
“Ready for the next generation of robot combat? Syfy has greenlit and shot the first season of a new show where eight-foot-tall state-of-the-art humanoid robots will rock ‘em and sock &lsq...
Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)
Mike Hamer
08 Nov 2012
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Robot Dragonfly from TechJect. Developed over four years by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the US Air Force, the researchers are now i...
Tovbot’s Shimi at Google I/O
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/s6bs1rrOwxo
Tovbot's Shimi made its first public appearance two days ago at Google I/O, where not just one but three Shimis performed in perfect coordination. Tovbot was formed earlie...
Quadrotor light show
John Payne
27 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/cseTX_rW3uM
This video is a performance piece incorporating a troupe of 16 quadrotors. It's a very nice way to spend a few minutes....
The new Honda ASIMO
Ioannis K. Erripis
20 Nov 2011
The most famous humanoid robot, Honda’s ASIMO has a new version. A few days ago Honda presented a more advanced model and performed a small display of its new capabilities. Meanwhile the robotics se...
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051
podcast
50 years of robotics (Part 2), with Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dan Kara, Kristinn Thórisson, Andrea Thomaz and Terry Fong
Podcast team
07 May 2010
Link to audio file (49:54)Welcome to the second part of our 50th episode special! To celebrate 50 episodes of Robots, we’re doing a review of some of the greatest advances in robotics during the...
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050
podcast
50 years of robotics (Part 1), with Rolf Pfeifer, Mark Tilden, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Oscar Schofield and Steve Potter
Podcast team
23 Apr 2010
Link to audio file (41:35)Today we celebrate the 50th episode of ROBOTS!
For the occasion we speak with 12 scientists about the most remarkable developments in robotics over the last 50 years and the...
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028
podcast
Celebrity robots brought to life, with Fred Barton
Podcast team
19 Jun 2009
Link to audio file (45:19)In today’s episode we speak with celebrity robot maker Fred Barton who is best known as ROBOTMAN. As an expert in the Sci-Fi genre, he’ll be giving us an overview...
ep.
026
podcast
Robot actors at the theater, with Christian Denisart and Nicola Tomatis
Podcast team
22 May 2009
Link to audio file (42:11)In this week’s show we take a closer look at Robots, not the podcast but the play that has been playing to sold-out audiences in Switzerland over the last 3 weeks. We ...
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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018
podcast
Human-robot love, with David Levy and Kathleen Richardson
Podcast team
30 Jan 2009
Link to audio file (47:22)In this episode we look at a subject that doesn’t always come to mind when you think of robots: love and relationships. Our first guest David Levy is the author of the ...
Industrial robots in research, with Raúl Ordóñez
Podcast team
16 Jan 2009
Link to audio file (32:45)In this episode we talk to Raúl Ordóñez about his new Motoman Robotics Lab at the University of Dayton and the research he plans to do with his high profile industrial ro...
ep.
015
podcast
Robot toys, with Mark Tilden
Podcast team
19 Dec 2008
Link to audio file (36:53)In the spirit of the holiday season, today’s episode is all about robots as toys. We speak to Mark Tilden, robot designer at WowWee Robotics, about designing robots for...
ep.
014
podcast
Robot musicians, with Gil Weinberg and Atsuo Takanishi
Podcast team
05 Dec 2008
Link to audio file (41:13)This episode focuses on robot musicians, starting with our first guest Gil Weinberg who is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Tech. With his wooden robot drummer Hai...
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012
podcast
Androids, human presence and the uncanny valley, with Hiroshi Ishiguro
Podcast team
07 Nov 2008
Link to audio file (32:40)This episode covers android science and human-robot interactions with expert Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka. After the interview we feature the last installment of Jack Graham&...
