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Robots Podcast: Harvest automation, with Joe Jones
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14 Jan 2011
Link to audio file (26:01)In today’s episode we look at a new market in robotics with huge potential, agriculture. With us, Joe Jones, co-founder of Harvest Automation and father of the Roomba...
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068
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Multi-robot teams, with Vijay Kumar and Daniel Mellinger
Podcast team
31 Dec 2010
Link to audio file (52:46)Happy New Year from the whole Robots Podcast team! Don’t miss our amazing holiday robot videos!
For this last episode of 2010 we look at multi-robot teams and impressi...
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Robots Podcast: Science fiction (Part 2), with Greg Bear
Podcast team
17 Dec 2010
Link to audio file (42:37)In this episode we dive into the world of famous science fiction writer Greg Bear. Christine then takes us on an audio journey through one of his books, Mariposa. Finally don...
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Personal helpers, with Steve Cousins and Moritz Tenorth
Podcast team
03 Dec 2010
Link to audio file (44:07)In today’s episode we take a look at the status and progress of the personal robotics domain — a research field which is about to change our lives! We talk to Ste...
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065
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Dependable swarms, with Alan Winfield
Podcast team
19 Nov 2010
Link to audio file (41:28)In today’s episode we take a close look at swarm robotics and its potential use in real-world applications with expert Alan Winfield, co-founder of the Bristol Robotics...
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064
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Robots Podcast: Autonomous vehicles, with Alberto Broggi and Raul Rojas
Podcast team
05 Nov 2010
Link to audio file (51:04)
In today’s episode we take a deeper look at what’s behind the hype over autonomous vehicles, and talk to two experts in the field, Alberto Broggi, leader of the Vislab ...
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063
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Amateur UAVs, with Chris Anderson
Podcast team
22 Oct 2010
Link to audio file (51:48)In today’s episode we speak about flying robots with Chris Anderson, founder of DIY Drones which is now the largest amateur UAV community in the world, and one of the l...
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Futurama, with David X. Cohen
Podcast team
08 Oct 2010
Link to audio file (24:37)In today’s episode we speak with David X. Cohen, the head writer and executive producer of Futurama!...
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061
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Robots Podcast: Olfaction, with Achim Lilienthal and Lino Forte Marques
Podcast team
24 Sep 2010
Link to audio file (49:12)In this episode we look at how robots can use smell to navigate and map their environment or detect hazards. Our first guest, Achim Lilienthal from Örebro University in Swed...
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060
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The law, with Ryan Calo
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10 Sep 2010
Link to audio file (59:59)
This episode focuses on the legal and ethical implications of robotics. Ryan Calo from the Stanford Law School discusses the big impact of liability legislation on the prog...
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059
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Programmable matter, with Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert
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27 Aug 2010
Link to audio file (40:57)In this episode we dive into the world of programmable matter with Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell U...
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Distributed flight array, with Raymond Oung
Podcast team
13 Aug 2010
Link to audio file (20:43)
In this episode, we discover an aerial modular robot called the Distributed Flight Array. To talk about this, we have Raymond Oung from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tec...
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Science fiction (Part 1), with Patrick Gyger
Podcast team
30 Jul 2010
Link to audio file (49:15)In today’s episode we’ll be diving into the world of Science Fiction with an interview of Patrick Gyger, director of one of the major Science Fiction Museums in t...
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Nanosystems, with Ari Requicha and Grégory Mermoud
Podcast team
16 Jul 2010
Link to audio file (32:50)In today’s episode we’ll be looking at nanorobotics from the hardware side to the control. In particular, we’ll be talking to one of the most renowned world...
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R&D at iRobot, with Brian Yamauchi.
Podcast team
02 Jul 2010
Link to audio file (36:58)In this episode we look at the Research and Development (R&D) done at iRobot in the government field with lead roboticist Brian Yamauchi....
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Modeling biology, with Barbara Webb and Steffen Wischmann
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18 Jun 2010
Link to audio file (28:44)In today’s episode we speak about modeling biology using robots and how lessons learned through this process can feedback into robotics. Our first guest, Barbara Webb, ...
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Online human-robot interactions, with Sonia Chernova and Kenton Williams
Podcast team
04 Jun 2010
Link to audio file (29:25)Today’s episode was recorded at the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab in the middle of some beautifully expressive robots such as the Huggable, Tofu and Leonar...
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The Nao Humanoid, with Luc Degaudenzi and Cédric Vaudel
Podcast team
21 May 2010
Link to audio file (25:07)Today’s episode was recorded at ICRA in Anchorage Alaska, one of the major conferences in robotics with a 1575 head count and 857 papers. At the robot exhibit, we met w...
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051
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50 years of robotics (Part 2), with Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dan Kara, Kristinn Thórisson, Andrea Thomaz and Terry Fong
Podcast team
07 May 2010
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...
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50 years of robotics (Part 1), with Rolf Pfeifer, Mark Tilden, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Oscar Schofield and Steve Potter
Podcast team
23 Apr 2010
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...
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URBI software platform, with Jean-Christophe Baillie
Podcast team
09 Apr 2010
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...
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048
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Chaos control, with Poramate Manoonpong and Alex Pitti
Podcast team
26 Mar 2010
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...
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The future of artificial intelligence, with Kristinn R. Thórisson and Wendelin Reich
Podcast team
12 Mar 2010
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. ThÃ...
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Swarming satellites, with Alvar Saenz-Otero
Podcast team
26 Feb 2010
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...
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AUV missions, with Oscar Schofield and Mark Moline
Podcast team
12 Feb 2010
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...
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Quadrotors, with Joshua Portlock
Podcast team
29 Jan 2010
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 ...
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Deep-sea exploration, with Alberto Collasius Jr.
Podcast team
15 Jan 2010
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...
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New year’s special, with Cecilia Lashi, Carl Morgan and Carson Reynolds
Podcast team
01 Jan 2010
Link to audio file (19:17)
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...
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Weight-loss coach, with Cory Kidd
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18 Dec 2009
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 ...
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Planetary exploration, with Julie Townsend and Sebastian Gautsch
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04 Dec 2009
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...
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Learning, with Andrea Thomaz and Sethu Vijayakumar
Podcast team
20 Nov 2009
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...
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Stroke rehabilitation, with Ludovic Dovat and David Brown
Podcast team
06 Nov 2009
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...
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Slithering creatures, with Howie Choset and Erik Kyrkjebø
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23 Oct 2009
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 ...
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Active touch, with Tony Prescott and Elio Tuci
Podcast team
09 Oct 2009
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...
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Emergent communication, with Sara Mitri and Jürgen Jost
Podcast team
25 Sep 2009
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, ...
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Celebrating invention, with Dean Kamen
Podcast team
11 Sep 2009
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...
