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Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson
Audrow Nash
02 Oct 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...
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Robots and Communication, with Eleanor Sandry
Ron Vanderkley
21 Aug 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Eleanor Sandry of Curtin University about her new book Robots and Communication. In the interview, we explore human to anim...
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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru
Audrow Nash
07 Aug 2015
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....
Rehabilitation and Environmental Monitoring, with Lei Cui
Ron Vanderkley
26 Jun 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation, a task-oriented 4-...
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CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener
Audrow Nash
12 Jun 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
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182
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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti
Audrow Nash
15 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...
Talking Machines: Interdisciplinary data, with David Blei
Talking Machines
07 May 2015
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In Episode 10 we talk with David Blei of Columbia University. We talk about his work on latent dirichlet allocation, topic models, the PhD program in data that he’s helping to create at C...
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bStem, with Todd Hylton
Audrow Nash
01 May 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Todd Hylton, Senior Vice President at Brain Corporation, about neuromorphic computers. They discuss the robotics development board bStem, which appro...
Talking Machines: Developing effective medicine by predicting molecular activity, with George Dahl
Talking Machines
24 Apr 2015
In episode nine we talk with George Dahl, of the University of Toronto, about his work on the Merck molecular activity challenge on kaggle and speech recognition. George recently successfully defend...
Talking Machines: Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton
Talking Machines
09 Apr 2015
In episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning to better understand how it’s d...
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
Talking Machines
26 Mar 2015
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
Talking Machines
17 Mar 2015
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...
Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun
Talking Machines
26 Feb 2015
In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...
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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller
Audrow Nash
20 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...
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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis
Audrow Nash
06 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...
Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy
Talking Machines
29 Jan 2015
On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever
Talking Machines
15 Jan 2015
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning
Talking Machines
01 Jan 2015
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
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Computer-Assisted Surgery, with Karol Miller
Ron Vanderkley
27 Jun 2014
In this episode Ron Vanderkley speaks to Prof. Karol Miller, Director of the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab at the University of Western Australia, about medical robotics and how doctors and pat...
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158
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A Code of Ethics for HRI Practitioners, with Laurel Riek
AJung Moon
14 Jun 2014
Human-robot interaction is a fascinating field of research in robotics. It also happens to be the field that is closely related to many of the ethical concerns raised with regards to interactive robot...
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Russian robotics, with Roman Luchin and Andrew Gryaznov
Sabine Hauert
30 May 2014
In this episode, Sabine speaks with Andrew Gryaznov, co-founder of Cubic Robotics and Roman Luchin, CEO of CyberTech Labs, about robotics in Russia. They provide us with an inside view on robotics edu...
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RoboRoach, with Bill Reith and Oliver Bendel
Ron Vanderkley
16 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Bill Reith, an engineer at Backyard Brains. The company develops RoboRoach, the world’s first commercially available “cyborg”, which was successfully ...
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Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke
Ron Vanderkley
02 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...
Schunk Manipulators, with Henrik A. Schunk
Per Sjöborg
20 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (27:49)In this episode Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company’s work in gripping technology, modular robotics and dexterous manipulation. They then look at se...
Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel
Podcast team
04 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (28:48)In this episode, we talk to Justin Werfel from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University about their latest paper published in Science o...
EU Robotics Week, with Fiorella Operto, Douwe Dresscher and Roko Tschakarow
Podcast team
22 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (41:00)The European Robotics Week 2013 featured 334 robotics related events in 24 countries and attracted more than 55’000 participants spanning all ages. To give us a snapsho...
Privacy, Google, and Big Deals, with Avner Levin
AJung Moon
07 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (33:53)
What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics? Since last December, Google alone has acquired a handful of companies in robotics, hom...
150th Episode Special, with Dario Floreano
Podcast team
21 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (26:55)
Did you know that Robohub started right here, with the podcast? This is our 150th podcast episode, and to celebrate we brought together the original team to reenact our ver...
Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino
Per Sjöborg
07 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (33:13)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...
Startup Funding, with Jan Westerhues
Per Sjöborg
24 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (25:51)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Jan Westerhues, Investment Partner with Robert Bosch Venture Capital, about how they fund robotics companies. As a stepping st...
Interdisciplinary Teams, with Giulio Sandini
Per Sjöborg
10 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (41:58)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Giulio Sandini, director of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)...
Teams and Tasks, with Lynne Parker
Per Sjöborg
27 Dec 2013
Link to audio file (37:33)
In today’s episode, Per Sjöborg speaks with Lynne Parker from the University of Tennessee about her work with robot teams. Her lab is developing techniques to get ro...
The DARPA Robotics Challenge, with Paul Oh
Sabine Hauert
13 Dec 2013
Link to audio file (40:39)In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews Paul Oh, the Director of the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab at Drexel University. His team, spanning 10 universities, is competing in...
Working with EOD Personnel, with Julie Carpenter
AJung Moon
29 Nov 2013
Link to audio file (34:30)
In this episode, AJung Moon talks to Julie Carpenter, a recent graduate of the University of Washington who interviewed 23 U.S. Military Explosive Ordnance Disposal person...
From the Greenhouse to the Fields, with David Dorhout
Ron Vanderkley
15 Nov 2013
Link to audio file (27:16)
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with David Dorhout from Iowa State University about his Agricultural Robots that include Prospero the robot farmer and Aquarius the g...
Blue River Technology, with Jorge Heraud
Sabine Hauert
03 Nov 2013
Link to audio file (31:48)
In this episode Sabine Hauert speaks with Jorge Heraud, CEO of California-based startup Blue River Technology which brings together computer vision and robotics to auto...
