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    Raffaello D’Andrea on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”
      13 Mar 2013
    How will robots shape the future of war?  I don’t know. I think that the more important question, however, is: what role should robots have in warfare? In my answer I have tried (as much as is h...

    Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling

      08 Mar 2013
    Link to audio file (22:47) In this episode, we talk with Kate Darling from the MIT Media Lab, about giving rights to social robots. She tells us about a recent Pleo torture session she organized at...

    The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)
      06 Mar 2013
    This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data.  Since they ...

    Know your robot space torsos: Justin, Robonaut, SAR-400, & AILA
      04 Mar 2013
    Astronauts: awesome, but only human It's cold out there beyond the blue. Full of radiation. Low on breathable air. Vacuous. It's hard to keep machines and organic creatures functioning and/or alive....

    Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
      03 Mar 2013
    The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....

    Henrik Christensen on “If you had a EUR 100M investment fund, into which robotics technology or field of robotics would you put your money?̶
      15 Jan 2013
    Robots for manufacturing. Generating a new family of robots that have a fluent interaction with humans. It will be easily programmable. Some would argue that Baxter provides this functionality. Unfo...

    Dancing with robots
      06 Dec 2012
    Robots parodying the latest video hits are cute but some choreographers, artists and human-robot interaction specialists have pushed the boundary of how humans and robots move in fascinating ways. Tho...

    Digital cultures, with Chris Chesher

      16 Nov 2012
    Link to audio file (34:22)In today’s episode we speak with Chris Chesher about how he views the emergence of robotics. He brings a new and interesting perspective as his approach mixes science and ...

    Isaac Asimov explains his three laws of robotics
      06 Nov 2012
    For those of you who aren't familiar with Asimov's Laws of Robotics: First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.See on io9.com...

    Robot Companions: Flagship funding proposal for 1 billion euro submitted
      25 Oct 2012
    The Coordination Action Robot Companions for Citizens has submitted its proposal for the European Commission's FET Flagship Initiative....

    Rethink Robotics, with Rodney Brooks

      05 Oct 2012
    Link to audio file (34:39) Link to transcript In today’s episode we speak with Rodney Brooks at the offices of Rethink Robotics about their first product Baxter, his ambition to revolutionize manu...

    Knowledge engineering, with Mary-Anne Williams

      29 Jun 2012
    Link to audio file (31:50)In this episode, we talk to Mary-Anne Williams, knowledge engineer and roboticist from the University of Technology in Sydney Australia (UTS). Her work focuses on cognitive m...

    The future of robot companions, with Paolo Dario

      18 May 2012
    Link to audio file (29:34)In this interview recorded at the Robotdalen Robotics Innovation Challenge, Professor Paolo Dario talks to Per about 3 conceptual waves of innovation, starting with industria...

    Lively international innovation summit about robotics
      23 Dec 2011
    In Lyon, France, 14th to 16th March, 2012. Save the date!By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot Report (www.TheRobotReport.com)and Catherine Simon, General Secretary, French Federation of Rob...

    Lively international innovation summit about robotics
      23 Dec 2011
    Today’s devices are becoming smarter and connected. They sense their environment, process the data collected and act upon their decisions autonomously or semi-autonomously.  The transformation is ...

    Teaching motion primitives
      01 Dec 2011
    Finding ways to easily teach service robots new motions will be key to their integration in our everyday environments. Ideally, teaching a robot should be no different than teaching a human. For examp...

    Robotic musicianship
      30 Nov 2011
    Shimon is an interactive robotic marimba player that can improvise both music and choreography in real-time to the melody of a human pianist. Playing an instrument does not make you a musician. To bec...

    The new Honda ASIMO
      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...

    Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong
      06 Jun 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...
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    Blended reality, with Natalie Freed, David Robert and Adam Setapen

      20 May 2011
    Link to audio file (24:44)In today’s episode we meet with Natalie Freed, David Robert and Adam Setapen from Cynthia Breazeal’s Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. They’ll be ...
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    European robotics (Part 1), with Jessica Karlsson, Ola Svanström and Moshe Shoham

      22 Apr 2011
    Link to audio file (26:48)The European Robotics Forum, jointly organized by the European Robotics Technology Platform (EUROP) and the European Robotics Research Network (EURON), was hosted this year o...
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    Mind control, with Raul Rojas and Geoffrey Mackeller

      25 Mar 2011
    Link to audio file (29:18)In today’s episode we look at a novel way to interact with your robot: through mind control. Raul Rojas returns to our show to talk about how his AutoNOMOS team used br...
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    Telepresence, with Jean-Christophe Baillie and Trevor Blackwell

      25 Feb 2011
    Link to audio file (37:08)In today’s show we’ll have a look at the next killer application in robotics, telepresence. The idea is simple, instead of planning a bothersome phone or video co...
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    Robots Podcast: Autonomous vehicles, with Alberto Broggi and Raul Rojas

      05 Nov 2010
    Link to audio file (51:04) In today’s episode we take a deeper look at what’s behind the hype over autonomous vehicles, and talk to two experts in the field, Alberto Broggi, leader of the Vislab ...

    Social learning
      29 Aug 2010
    Robots are portrayed as tomorrows helpers, be it in schools, hospitals, workplaces or homes. Unfortunately, such robots won’t be truly useful out-of-the-box because of the complexity of real-wor...
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    Online human-robot interactions, with Sonia Chernova and Kenton Williams

      04 Jun 2010
    Link to audio file (29:25)Today’s episode was recorded at the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab in the middle of some beautifully expressive robots such as the Huggable, Tofu and Leonar...
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    The Nao Humanoid, with Luc Degaudenzi and Cédric Vaudel

      21 May 2010
    Link to audio file (25:07)Today’s episode was recorded at ICRA in Anchorage Alaska, one of the major conferences in robotics with a 1575 head count and 857 papers. At the robot exhibit, we met w...
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    50 years of robotics (Part 2), with Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dan Kara, Kristinn Thórisson, Andrea Thomaz and Terry Fong

      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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    50 years of robotics (Part 1), with Rolf Pfeifer, Mark Tilden, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Oscar Schofield and Steve Potter

      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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    The future of artificial intelligence, with Kristinn R. Thórisson and Wendelin Reich

      12 Mar 2010
    Link to audio file (44:35)In this episode we stray into the realm of artificial intelligence, what it means, its early beginnings and where it may be going in the future. We speak with Kristinn R. ThÃ...
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    New year’s special, with Cecilia Lashi, Carl Morgan and Carson Reynolds

      01 Jan 2010
    Link to audio file (19:17) For this special episode, we’ll be speaking with three people who made it into Christine’s news section for a debriefing on why their robot was such a breakth...
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    Weight-loss coach, with Cory Kidd

      18 Dec 2009
    Link to audio file (31:57)Take the 5-minute survey to help us improve ROBOTS! With the holiday season ahead of us and Christmas dinners already started, many of us are starting to feel the pinch at ...
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    Learning, with Andrea Thomaz and Sethu Vijayakumar

      20 Nov 2009
    Link to audio file (49:44)In this episode we speak with two experts in robot learning. Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech looks at how humans can teach and humanoids learn with the hope to create good hu...
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    Stroke rehabilitation, with Ludovic Dovat and David Brown

      06 Nov 2009
    Link to audio file (34:15)In today’s show we’ll be looking at robots used for the rehabilitation of stroke patients. Our first guest, Ludovic Dovat for the National University of Singapore...
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    Robots Podcast: Smart homes, with Roger Orpwood and Andrew Sixsmith

      31 Jul 2009
    Link to audio file (42:48)In today’s episode we look at how technology can improve the quality of life of people with dementia. Our first guest, Roger Orpwood, is the director of the Bath Instit...
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    Autonomous city explorer, with Dirk Wollherr and Astrid Weiss

      05 Jun 2009
    Link to audio file (36:08)Today marks Robots’ 1-year anniversary, so Happy Birthday Robots!! In today’s show we talk about a fresh and unique project coming from the Technical University...

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