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FutureDairy, with Kendra Kerrisk
Ron Vanderkley
18 Oct 2013
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FutureDairy is an R&D development program to help Australian dairy farmers manage the challenges they are likely to face during the next 20 years. In this episode, Ron ...
Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut
Matthew Schroyer
20 Sep 2013
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In this episode Matthew Schroyer speaks with Nick Kohut, CEO of Dash Robotics, about their foldable hexapod robot and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign to get them into the...
Construction with Amorphous Materials, with Nils Napp
Sabine Hauert
06 Sep 2013
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In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews Nils Napp from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
Napp tells us about his...
Venture Capital in Robotics, with Diana Saraceni
Per Sjöborg
23 Aug 2013
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Diana Saraceni is a Venture Capitalist at 360 Capital Partners. In this interview, she tells us about her first investment in robotics 3 years ago with Invendo Medical, and...
Drone Journalism, with Matthew Schroyer
Sabine Hauert
09 Aug 2013
Link to audio file (41:02)In this episode, we speak with Matthew Schroyer, founder of DroneJournalism.org, co-founder of Drones for Good, and developer of the “Drones for Schools” program which te...
Outdoor autonomous systems, with Jonathan Roberts
Podcast team
26 Jul 2013
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In this episode, we speak with Jonathan Roberts, research director of the Autonomous Systems Lab at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Brisbane Australia. Roberts leads a team of more...
Mining Automation, with Martin Adams
Podcast team
12 Jul 2013
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In today’s episode we speak with Martin Adams from the University of Chile about using robots in the mining industry. Mining is a dangerous job that would strongly benef...
Robotics Business Review, with Tom Green
Podcast team
28 Jun 2013
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In this episode we meet with Tom Green, editor in chief of the Robotics Business Review, to discuss current trends in robotics. Robotics Business Review is a global robotic...
The OpenROV project, with Eric Stackpole and David Lang
Podcast team
14 Jun 2013
Link to audio file (34:33)In the episode, we speak with Eric Stackpole and David Lang from the OpenROV project about their challenge in developing Eric’s idea to find an easy way to explore a c...
Curved Artificial Compound Eye, with Ramon Pericet Camara and Michal Dobrzynski
Podcast team
31 May 2013
Link to audio file (22:01)In this episode, we speak with Ramon Pericet and Michal Dobrzynski from EPFL about their Curved Artificial Compound Eye (CurvACE) published in the Proceedings of the National...
Autonomous lethal weapons, with Peter Asaro
AJung Moon
17 May 2013
Link to audio file (29:07)In this episode, AJung talks to Peter Asaro from The New School in New York city about autonomous weapons systems. Peter tells us about the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an...
Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller
Podcast team
03 May 2013
Link to audio file (25:02)In this episode we hear from researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about the Science paper published today reporting on the first controlled flight of an insect-sized ...
Ethical, social and legal issues, with Pericle Salvini
Per Sjöborg
19 Apr 2013
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In this episode, Per talks to Pericle Salvini from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna about his work with social, ethical and legal issues in robotics. He tells us about the Robola...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks
Florian Röhrbein
05 Apr 2013
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...
Software marketplace, with Celestino Alvarez Martinez and Lucia Fernandez Cossio
Podcast team
05 Apr 2013
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In this episode we hear how the Spanish robotic startup Adele is creating a marketplace for robotics software. Through their platform, robot developers can buy software com...
International standards, with Gurvinder Virk
Podcast team
22 Mar 2013
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In this episode we hear from Professor Gurvinder Virk from the University of Gävl about how international standards are created in the ISO. He also tells us why he thinks ...
Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling
Podcast team
08 Mar 2013
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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...
Insect-inspired navigation, with Michael Mangan
Per Sjöborg
22 Feb 2013
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In this episode Per talks to Michael Mangan from the University of Edinburgh about using robotics to study and replicate insect behaviour....
EU Robotics Week, with Thilo Brodtmann, Asim Ikram and Barbara Klein
Podcast team
08 Feb 2013
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In today’s episode we cover the EU Robotics Week that took place during the last week of November and featured robotics related activities across Europe for the general p...
Robolution Capital, with Renaud Champion
Podcast team
25 Jan 2013
Link to audio file (41:13)In this episode Per talks to robotics enthusiast and investment fund manager Renaud Champion. Champion is co-founder of the professional investment fund Robolution Capital, t...
Curious & creative, with Rob Saunders
Podcast team
11 Jan 2013
Link to audio file (36:25)In today’s episode we speak with Rob Saunders about work done at the University of Sydney in computational creativity and curiosity....
Autonomous Solutions, with Mel Torrie
Podcast team
28 Dec 2012
Link to audio file (26:42)In today’s episode we speak with Mel Torrie about work done at Autonomous Solutions, Inc. to make a large range of vehicles autonomous....
Sphero, with Ian Bernstein
Per Sjöborg
14 Dec 2012
Link to audio file (25:10)In today’s episode, Per Sjoborg speaks with Ian Bernstein about the hugely successful Sphero robot and the company he co-founded, Orbotix....
The Wambots Team, with Thomas Bräunl
Podcast team
30 Nov 2012
Link to audio file (27:40)In today’s episode, we speak with Thomas Bräunl from the University of Western Australia about the MAGIC 2010 Challenge, the Wambot team and work done at the Robotics ...
Digital cultures, with Chris Chesher
Podcast team
16 Nov 2012
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 ...
Grishin Robotics, with Dmitry Grishin
Podcast team
02 Nov 2012
Link to audio file (35:56)In today’s episode we speak with Dmitry Grishin about Grishin Robotics, his global investment company dedicated to helping robotics startups distribute already working ...
Space business, with Stephen Gorevan
Podcast team
19 Oct 2012
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In today’s episode we speak with Stephen Gorevan from Honeybee Robotics about how he and Chris Chapman started the company and how his childhood dream...
Rethink Robotics, with Rodney Brooks
Podcast team
05 Oct 2012
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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...
BEAM Robotics, with Mark Tilden
Podcast team
21 Sep 2012
Link to audio file (34:52)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Mark Tilden, about the history before WowWee‘s RoboSapien and FemiSapien and about his belief that bottom up BE...
Future cities, with Matthias Kohler
Podcast team
07 Sep 2012
Link to audio file (38:04)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Matthias Kohler, faculty at ETHZ and renowned architect, about his work in robotic architecture at the Future Cities Labo...
Robotics festival, with Francesco Mondada
Podcast team
24 Aug 2012
Link to audio file (35:00)Link to transcriptIn today’s episode we speak with Francesco Mondada, organizer of the Robotics Festival at EPFL that gathers over 15’000 visitors for hands-on wo...
Field robotics, with Salah Sukkarieh
Podcast team
10 Aug 2012
Link to audio file (29:22)Link to transcriptIn this episode, we talk to Salah Sukkarieh, Director of Research and Innovation at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR). He gives us an overview...
JPL Open House 2012, with Tod Litwin, Megan Richardson, Kit Kennedy, Mike Watkins and Dimitri Zarzhitsky
Podcast team
27 Jul 2012
Link to audio file (28:07)In today’s show we bring you to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Open House, just in time to prepare for the landing of the Curiosity Mars Rover in less tha...
Launching startups, with Andra Keay
Podcast team
13 Jul 2012
Link to audio file (40:32)Today we talk with Andra Keay, founder of Robot Launch Pad, robotics startup accelerator based in Silicon Valley, about latest events, lean startup methodology, funding, and ...
Knowledge engineering, with Mary-Anne Williams
Podcast team
29 Jun 2012
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...
Swiss robotics, with Dario Floreano
Podcast team
15 Jun 2012
Link to audio file (20:20)In this episode we talk to Dario Floreano, director of the Swiss National Center of Competence for Research (NCCR) in Robotics that gathers leading experts in the field worki...
