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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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URBI software platform, with Jean-Christophe Baillie
Link to audio file (40:25)In this episode we look at robotics software platforms with Jean-Christophe Baillie who is the CEO of Gostai, a robotics software company out of Paris.
He tells us about the...
09 April 2010, by
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Chaos control, with Poramate Manoonpong and Alex Pitti
Link to audio file (37:05)In this episode we focus on chaos control and ways to generate unpredictable behaviour. Our first guess, Poramate Manoonpong is a research associate at the Bernstein Center f...
26 March 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. Th...
12 March 2010, by
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Swarming satellites, with Alvar Saenz-Otero
Link to audio file (40:03)In today’s episode we speak with the lead scientist of the SPHERES project, Dr. Alvar Saenz-Otero from MIT, which aims at developing autonomous formation flight and doc...
26 February 2010, by
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AUV missions, with Oscar Schofield and Mark Moline
Link to audio file (56:52)Today we speak about two incredible missions conducted with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (or AUVs). We first speak with Oscar Schofield from Rutgers University in the US ab...
12 February 2010, by
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Quadrotors, with Joshua Portlock
Link to audio file (29:04)Today’s show is centered around robots in the air, and more specifically on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of the quadrotor variety. We chat with Joshua Portlock from ...
29 January 2010, by
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Deep-sea exploration, with Alberto Collasius Jr.
Link to audio file (30:15)In today’s show we focus on the great depths of our ocean and robotic vehicles capable of taking us deeper than we ever imagined. Alberto Collasius Jr. tells us about h...
15 January 2010, by
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New year’s special, with Cecilia Lashi, Carl Morgan and Carson Reynolds
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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...
01 January 2010, by
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Weight-loss coach, with Cory Kidd
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 ...
18 December 2009, by
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Planetary exploration, with Julie Townsend and Sebastian Gautsch
Link to audio file (52:59)Take the 5-minute survey to help us improve ROBOTS!
Today’s show is a special episode on space robots. We start by speaking with Julie Townsend from the Jet Propulsio...
04 December 2009, by
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Learning, with Andrea Thomaz and Sethu Vijayakumar
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...
20 November 2009, by
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Stroke rehabilitation, with Ludovic Dovat and David Brown
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...
06 November 2009, by
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Slithering creatures, with Howie Choset and Erik Kyrkjebø
Link to audio file (36:14)In this episode we’ll be speaking about snake robots slithering through pipes, disaster areas and even your body. We first speak with expert Howie Choset from Carnegie ...
23 October 2009, by
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Active touch, with Tony Prescott and Elio Tuci
Link to audio file (31:14)In today’s show we’ll be dabbing at the subject of active touch. Our first guest, Tony Prescott from the University of Sheffield in the UK has been looking at how...
09 October 2009, by
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Emergent communication, with Sara Mitri and Jürgen Jost
Link to audio file (33:19)In today’s episode we deal with the question of communication, what it means, where it comes from, and how it can be applied to robots. We first speak with Sara Mitri, ...
25 September 2009, by
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Celebrating invention, with Dean Kamen
Link to audio file (38:49)In this episode we have an exclusive interview with Dean Kamen, considered by some as the greatest inventor alive. He’s the father of the insulin pump, the Segway and t...
11 September 2009, by
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Robot-assisted surgery, with Rainer Konietschke and Woong Youn Chung
Link to audio file (26:17)In this episode, we look at robots in the medical field, in particular those used in teleoperated surgery. We first speak with Rainer Konietschke from the German Aerospace Ce...
28 August 2009, by
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Brain-machine interfaces, with Charles Higgins and Steve Potter
Link to audio file (47:59)In today’s show we’ll be speaking with two experts in the field of brain-machine interfaces. Our first guest, Charles Higgins from the University of Arizona tells...
14 August 2009, by
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Robots Podcast: Smart homes, with Roger Orpwood and Andrew Sixsmith
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...
31 July 2009, by
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Soft machines, with Richard Jones
Link to audio file (28:14)In this episode we interview Richard Jones, Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield in the UK, on the future nanorobots inspired from biology: Soft Machines. Afte...
17 July 2009, by
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From animals to automation, with Markus Fischer and Victor Zykov
Link to audio file (38:22)In this episode we look at how FESTO, a worldwide leader in automation technology, has been copying nature to design bionic robots such as artificial penguins, manta-rays or ...
03 July 2009, by
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Celebrity robots brought to life, with Fred Barton
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...
19 June 2009, by
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Autonomous city explorer, with Dirk Wollherr and Astrid Weiss
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...
05 June 2009, by
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Robot actors at the theater, with Christian Denisart and Nicola Tomatis
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 ...
22 May 2009, by
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Collective coverage and self-assembly, with Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross
Link to audio file (38:39)In this episode we look in depth at two shades of robot coordination, multi-robot area coverage and self-assembling robots.
Our first guest, Nikolaus Correll, is a postdoc a...
08 May 2009, by
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Giant roaming creatures, with Theo Jansen and Jaimie Mantzel
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...
24 April 2009, by
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The race to the moon, with William “Red” Whittaker
Link to audio file (36:33)In this episode, we take-off for the moon with Prof. William “Red” Whittaker who is the director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University in the...
10 April 2009, by
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Learning with LEGO, with Chris Rogers and Liz Herron
Link to audio file (39:22)In this episode we focus on engineering education at the elementary school level, and how robotics can play a key role in shaping the engineers of the future. We first speak ...
27 March 2009, by
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