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Raffaello D’Andrea on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”

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...
13 March 2013, by

Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling

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...
08 March 2013, by

The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)

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 ...
06 March 2013, by

Know your robot space torsos: Justin, Robonaut, SAR-400, & AILA

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....
04 March 2013, by

Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich

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....
03 March 2013, by

Henrik Christensen on “If you had a EUR 100M investment fund, into which robotics technology or field of robotics would you put your money?̶

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...
15 January 2013, by



Dancing with robots

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...
06 December 2012, by

Digital cultures, with Chris Chesher

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 ...
16 November 2012, by

Isaac Asimov explains his three laws of robotics

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...
06 November 2012, by

Robot Companions: Flagship funding proposal for 1 billion euro submitted

The Coordination Action Robot Companions for Citizens has submitted its proposal for the European Commission's FET Flagship Initiative....
25 October 2012, by

Rethink Robotics, with Rodney Brooks

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...
05 October 2012, by

Knowledge engineering, with Mary-Anne Williams

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...
29 June 2012, by

The future of robot companions, with Paolo Dario

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...
18 May 2012, by

Lively international innovation summit about robotics

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 ...
23 December 2011, by

Lively international innovation summit about robotics

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...
23 December 2011, by

Teaching motion primitives

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...
01 December 2011, by

Robotic musicianship

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...
30 November 2011, by

The new Honda ASIMO

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...
20 November 2011, by

Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong

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...
06 June 2011, by
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Blended reality, with Natalie Freed, David Robert and Adam Setapen

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 ...
20 May 2011, by
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European robotics (Part 1), with Jessica Karlsson, Ola Svanström and Moshe Shoham

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...
22 April 2011, by
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Mind control, with Raul Rojas and Geoffrey Mackeller

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...
25 March 2011, by
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Telepresence, with Jean-Christophe Baillie and Trevor Blackwell

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...
25 February 2011, by
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Robots Podcast: Autonomous vehicles, with Alberto Broggi and Raul Rojas

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 ...
05 November 2010, by

Social learning

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...
29 August 2010, by
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Online human-robot interactions, with Sonia Chernova and Kenton Williams

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...
04 June 2010, by
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The Nao Humanoid, with Luc Degaudenzi and Cédric Vaudel

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...
21 May 2010, by
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50 years of robotics (Part 2), with Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dan Kara, Kristinn Thórisson, Andrea Thomaz and Terry Fong

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...
07 May 2010, by
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50 years of robotics (Part 1), with Rolf Pfeifer, Mark Tilden, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Oscar Schofield and Steve Potter

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...
23 April 2010, by
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The future of artificial intelligence, with Kristinn R. Thórisson and Wendelin Reich

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...
12 March 2010, by







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