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Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics about the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo. Both ROS and Gazebo are open source and are widely used in the robotics co...
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288
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On Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation, with Milind Tambe
Lauren Klein
11 Jun 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Professor Milind Tambe of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California about his research using artificial ...
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280
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Semantics in Robotics, with Amy Loutfi
Audrow Nash
18 Feb 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Amy Loutfi, a professor at Örebro University, about how semantic representations can be used to help robots reason about the world. Loutfi discusses semantic...
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277
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 3 of 3), with Pauline Pounds, Philippe Morere and Yujung Liu
Audrow Nash
09 Jan 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Pauline Pound, Philippe Morere, and Yujung Liu about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in ...
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275
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 2 of 3), with Robert Lösch, Ali Marjovi and Sophia Sakr
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Robert Lösch, Ali Marjovi, and Sophia Sakr about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Mad...
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273
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 1 of 3), with Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell and Martin Karlsson
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell, and Martin Karlsson about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and S...
First results of the ROSIN project: Robotics Open-Source Software for Industry
Thilo Zimmermann
18 Sep 2018
Open-Source Software for robots is a de-facto standard in academia, and its advantages can benefit industrial applications as well. The worldwide ROS-Industrial initiative has been using ROS, the Robo...
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269
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Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis in Salesforce Analytics, with Amruta Moktali
Audrow Nash
17 Sep 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Amruta Moktali, VP of Product Management at Salesforce Analytics, about Salesforce Analytics’ analytic and artificial intelligence software. Moktali discuss...
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
Thilo Zimmermann
10 Sep 2018
Four knowledge institutes across Europe - the Danish Technological Institute (DTI, DK), Fraunhofer IPA (DE), Tecnalia (ES) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC, UK) - teamed up to offer highly...
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266
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Towards using Micro and Nano Robots in the Human Body, with Peer Fischer
Marwa ElDiwiny
06 Aug 2018
In this episode, Marwa ElDiwiny interview Peer Fisher, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the Director of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck I...
Launch of ROBOTT-NET’s pilot projects
Thilo Zimmermann
24 Jul 2018
Irabia, Linak and Nissan have along with Trumpf, Maser, Piccolo, Weibel and Air Liquide been selected to team up on a real-world case study. Over the next 18 months ROBOTT-NET will take these eight vo...
Innovative programming software used to generate robot welding programs
Thilo Zimmermann
16 Jul 2018
Since programming is an extremely time-consuming business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are often forced to manage without robots. Researchers from Fraunhofer IPA have therefore developed ...
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264
podcast
Bio-inspired Soft Robots for Healthcare, with Yong-Lae Park
Marwa ElDiwiny
08 Jul 2018
In this episode, Marwa Mohammed Alaa Eldean Eldiwiny interviews Yong-Lae Park, Associate Professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, about the bio-inspired design and manufacture of soft...
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260
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Hyundai’s Exoskeletons, with Sangin Park
Audrow Nash
14 May 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Sangin Park, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, about exoskeletons. Park describes three exoskeleton prototypes: one for helping workers reduce back pain, ...
Five projects make the first cut and receive a ROBOTT-NET pilot
Thilo Zimmermann
11 Apr 2018
It all started with 166 companies spread across 12 European countries appling for a “golden ticket” to ROBOTT-NET’s Voucher Program. 64 companies received a voucher and highly specialized consul...
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257
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Learning Robot Objectives from Physical Human Interaction, with Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey
Audrow Nash
31 Mar 2018
In this interview, Audrow speaks with Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey about a method that allows robots to infer a human’s objective through physical interaction. They discuss their approach, the c...
European digital innovation hub strengthens robotics development
Thilo Zimmermann
30 Mar 2018
Digital innovation hubs are vital to create innovative solutions and employment. ROBOTT-NET is an example of a digital innovation hub, where four leading Research Technology Organizations (RTOs) in Eu...
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255
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Learning about Legged Locomotion from Birds, with Monica Daley
Audrow Nash
04 Mar 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Monica Daley about learning from birds about legged locomotion. To do this, Daley analyzes the gaits of guineafowl in various experiments to understand the mec...
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253
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eSIM in Wearable Technology, with Karl Weaver
Audrow Nash
05 Feb 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Karl Weaver (魏卡爾), formerly the Original Equipment Manufacturer Business Development Director for Oasis Smart SIM. Weaver discusses how wearable technolo...
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
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250
podcast
Learning Prosthesis Control Parameters, with Helen Huang
Audrow Nash
24 Dec 2017
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Helen Huang, Joint Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State, about a method of tuning powered lower limb prosthes...
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249
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ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2017
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...
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248
podcast
Semi-active Prostheses, with Peter Adamczyk
Audrow Nash
24 Nov 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Adamczyk, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on semi-active foot and ankle prostheses. The difference is that active below-knee p...
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247
podcast
ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot, with Marco Hutter
Audrow Nash
11 Nov 2017
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments,...
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246
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Smart Swarms, with Vijay Kumar
Jack Rasiel
28 Oct 2017
In this episode, Jack Rasiel interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Kumar discusses the guiding ideas behind his research on micro unmanned aeri...
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244
podcast
Robot Pediatric Coach, with Ayanna Howard
Audrow Nash
30 Sep 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about her work to help children with the movement disorder cerebral palsy. Howard discusses ho...
#ERLEmergency2017 in tweets
SPARC
27 Sep 2017
The ERL Emergency Robots 2017 (#ERLemergency2017) major tournament in Piombino, Italy, gathered 130 participants from 16 universities and companies from 8 European countries. Participating teams desig...
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240
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Biowatch: Biometric Identification Using Veins, with Matthias Vanoni
MeiXing Dong
05 Aug 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong interviews Matthias Vanoni, co-founder and CEO of Biowatch. Vanoni speaks about Biowatch, a wrist-veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile ...
Robot-driven device improves crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy
Columbia Engineering
27 Jul 2017
In the U.S., 3.6 out of 1000 school-aged children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). Their symptoms include abnormal gait patterns which results in joint degeneration over time. Slow walking spee...
Folding robots: No battery, no wires, no problem
Wyss Institute
26 Jul 2017
The traditional Japanese art of origami transforms a simple sheet of paper into complex, three-dimensional shapes through a very specific pattern of folds, creases, and crimps. Folding robots based on...
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238
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Midwest Speech and Language Days 2017 Posters, with Michael White, Dmitriy Dligach and Denis Newman-Griffiths
MeiXing Dong
08 Jul 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong conducts interviews at the 2017 Midwest Speech and Language Days workshop in Chicago. She talks with Michael White of Ohio State University about question interpretation ...
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237
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Deep Learning in Robotics, with Sergey Levine
Audrow Nash
24 Jun 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Sergey Levine, assistant professor at UC Berkeley, about deep learning on robotics. Levine explains what deep learning is and he discusses the challenges of usi...
Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology
The Conversation
22 Jun 2017
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...
Shrinking data for surgical training
MIT News
21 Jun 2017
Laparoscopy is a surgical technique in which a fiber-optic camera is inserted into a patient’s abdominal cavity to provide a video feed that guides the surgeon through a minimally invasive procedure...
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236
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IASP 2016: Prostheses and Finding Shoes, with Vadim Kotenev and Vagan Martirosyan
Audrow Nash and Christina Brester
09 Jun 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Vadim...
2017 Robot Art Competition winners announced
Robohub Editors
19 May 2017
A record number of teams submitted beautiful robot-created artwork for the second year of this 5-year worldwide competition. In total, there were 38 teams from 10 countries who submitted 200 differen...
