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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...
20 March 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
17 March 2015, by
Talking Machines
Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics
Raffaello D’Andrea’s robots can do amazing things: play soccer and ping-pong, perform complex choreographed acrobatics in the air, build towers brick by brick, and move pallets around warehouses. ...
28 January 2015, by
Massimo Russo and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
Bruno Maisonnier at TedExConcorde. Photo credit: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ.
Last week I dropped by Aldebaran’s studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. ...
24 June 2014, by
Mark Stephen Meadows
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 4): Interview with Raffaello D’Andrea
In this 4th interview of our four-part ECHORD series, conducted last June, Sascha Griffiths from TUM talks to Raffaello D'Andrea, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich and technical c...
28 February 2014, by
Florian Röhrbein
Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda
An international leader in the field of robotics and automation, Toshio Fukuda is best known for his pioneering work on micro robotics systems — including microsensors and micro actuators — a...
07 January 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the ...
05 January 2014, by
TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella
Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project
Michael McMaster and his latest creation - a life-sized Wall-E.
If you’re a diehard Star Wars fan, or if you have a background in robotics, you might already know who Michael McMaster is. In the pa...
26 December 2013, by
Ajay Arora
Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
Aisoy, a spanish robotics startup, is motivated by the goal of building intelligent, personal, "social" robots, which make our lives easier and funnier. Their robot, the Aisoy1, is their first step to...
23 December 2013, by
Mike Hamer
Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into engineering. We've already heard what it's like to be part of an all-girls ro...
My pathway to robotics
My name is Jaidyn Edwards. I am eighteen years old and live in South Australia. For me, being interested in robotics was part of an evolutionary process built upon a few core interests I had as a chil...
25 September 2013, by
Jaidyn Edwards
Drones for Schools
To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
24 September 2013, by
Matthew Schroyer
Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics
As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...
18 July 2013, by
Rich Mahoney and Hallie Siegel
Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
17 July 2013, by
Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 3): Interview with Minoru Asada
Established experts in the field of robotics were recently interviewed by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. Motivated by the fact that indust...
17 May 2013, by
Florian Röhrbein
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro
The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Techn...
22 April 2013, by
Florian Röhrbein
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks
This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. W...
05 April 2013, by
Florian Röhrbein
