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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
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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. Â Kumar discusses the guiding ideas behind his research on micro unmanned aeri...
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245
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
Audrow Nash
14 Oct 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make vehicles sa...
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244
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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...
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243
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Disney Robotics, with Katsu Yamane
Audrow Nash
17 Sep 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Katsu Yamane, Senior Research Scientist at Disney, about robotics in Disney. Yamane discusses Disney’s history with robots, how Disney currently uses Robots, ...
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239
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Robot Academy, with Peter Corke
Audrow Nash
22 Jul 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke, Professor of Robotics at the Queensland University of Technology and Director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, about Robot Academy. Rob...
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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...
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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...
Talking machines: Graphons and “inferencing”
Talking Machines
30 May 2017
In episode two of season three Neil takes us through the basics on dropout, we chat about the definition of inference (It's more about context than you think!) and hear an interview with Jennifer Chay...
Hosts of Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence and Ryan Adams
Talking Machines
28 Apr 2017
Talking Machines is entering its third season and going through some changes. Our founding host Ryan is moving on and in his place, Neil Lawrence of Amazon is taking over as co-host. We say thank you ...
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232
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Kickstart Accelerator, with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni
Audrow Nash
17 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni about Kickstart Accelerator, a Swiss Startup Accelerator. Siegwart leads the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich and is on...
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231
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CUBE Tech Fair, with Torsten Oelke
Audrow Nash
02 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Torsten Oelkes, Executive Chairman of CUBE, about the CUBE Tech Fair. The CUBE Tech Fair is a conference that takes place in Berlin in May that seeks to facili...
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230
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bots_alive, with Bradley Knox
Audrow Nash
18 Mar 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bradley Knox, founder of bots_alive. Knox speaks about an add-on to a Hexbug, a six-legged robotic toy, that makes the bot behave more like a character. They di...
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229
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IASP 2016: Skolkovo, Waterproof Drones, and Underwater Vehicles, with Albert Efimov, Anastasia Uryasheva and Borris Rozman
Audrow Nash and Christina Brester
05 Mar 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 Alber...
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226
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Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth
Ron Vanderkley
21 Jan 2017
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They d...
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225
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A Wearable Robotic Extra-Finger for Grasp Compensation, with Domenico Prattichizzo
Audrow Nash
07 Jan 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Domenico Prattichizzo, Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena and Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova in Italy, about a ...
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224
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Speech-Controlled Wheelchair, with Vladimir Stanovov
Christina Brester
23 Dec 2016
In this episode, Christina Brester interviews Vladimir Stanovov, PhD student and researcher at the Siberian State Aerospace University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). Stanovov speaks about a speech-controlled ...
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223
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Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff
Abate De Mey
11 Dec 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Edward Neff, founder of SMAC Corporation. Mr. Neff discusses how breakthroughs in his company have allowed them to develop linear actuators compact enough to b...
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222
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100/100 Computer Vision Challenge, with Dieter Fox
Audrow Nash
26 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dieter Fox, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, about the 100/100 Computer Vision Tracking Challen...
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221
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Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...
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220
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Teach Xemo to Move, with Jeff Sprenger
Abate De Mey
31 Oct 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Jeff Sprenger, founder of the startup Xemory in Vermont, USA. At Xemory they are developing a robot simulation game called Xemo, where players learn to animate...
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219
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ICRA 2016: Landmine Detection Challenge, with Edson Prestes
Audrow Nash
16 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edson Prestes, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an organizer of the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) 20...
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218
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RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
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217
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LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
Ron Vanderkley
17 Sep 2016
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
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216
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ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ekaterina Bereziy, Founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, about exoskeletons for the disabled and for rehabilitation.
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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr
Audrow Nash
20 Aug 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to the amputation of both of his legs below the knee and how th...
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212
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Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
Audrow Nash
09 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
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211
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ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier
Audrow Nash
25 Jun 2016
This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Societyâ€...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and society, with Neil Lawrence
Talking Machines
08 Apr 2016
Episode seven of season two is a little different than our usual episodes; Ryan and Katherine returned from a conference where they got to talk with Neil Lawrence from University of Sheffield about so...
Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh
Wyss Institute
01 Dec 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
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196
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Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams
Ron Vanderkley
30 Nov 2015
Transcript below.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...
Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood
Wyss Institute
09 Nov 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
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194
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Embodied Quadrotors, with Davide Scaramuzza
Audrow Nash
31 Oct 2015
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Zurich and leader of the Robotics and Perception Group, about ...
Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal
Wyss Institute
28 Oct 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
