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Robot-assisted surgery, with Rainer Konietschke and Woong Youn Chung
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28 Aug 2009
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...
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032
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Brain-machine interfaces, with Charles Higgins and Steve Potter
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14 Aug 2009
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...
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031
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Robots Podcast: Smart homes, with Roger Orpwood and Andrew Sixsmith
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31 Jul 2009
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...
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030
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Soft machines, with Richard Jones
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17 Jul 2009
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...
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029
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From animals to automation, with Markus Fischer and Victor Zykov
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03 Jul 2009
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 ...
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028
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Celebrity robots brought to life, with Fred Barton
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19 Jun 2009
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...
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027
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Autonomous city explorer, with Dirk Wollherr and Astrid Weiss
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05 Jun 2009
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...
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026
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Robot actors at the theater, with Christian Denisart and Nicola Tomatis
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22 May 2009
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 ...
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025
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Collective coverage and self-assembly, with Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Gross
Podcast team
08 May 2009
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...
Giant roaming creatures, with Theo Jansen and Jaimie Mantzel
Podcast team
24 Apr 2009
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...
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023
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The race to the moon, with William “Red” Whittaker
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10 Apr 2009
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...
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022
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Learning with LEGO, with Chris Rogers and Liz Herron
Podcast team
27 Mar 2009
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 ...
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021
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The REEM-B and HUBO humanoids, with Davide Faconti and Jun Ho Oh
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13 Mar 2009
Link to audio file (40:01)In this episode we talk about humanoid robots, or robots that resemble me and you, at least in some shape or form. We first speak with Davide Faconti, leader of the REEM proj...
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020
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Robot ethics (Part 2), with Ronald Arkin
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27 Feb 2009
Link to audio file (39:09)This episode closes a two-part special looking at ethical issues in robotics. Given the broad and controversial nature of this topic, we speak with two world-renowned experts...
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019
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Robot ethics (Part 1), with Noel Sharkey
Podcast team
13 Feb 2009
Link to audio file (44:17)In this episode we start a two-part special looking at ethical issues in robotics. Given the broad and controversial nature of this topic, we will speak with two world-renown...
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018
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Human-robot love, with David Levy and Kathleen Richardson
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30 Jan 2009
Link to audio file (47:22)In this episode we look at a subject that doesn’t always come to mind when you think of robots: love and relationships. Our first guest David Levy is the author of the ...
Industrial robots in research, with Raúl Ordóñez
Podcast team
16 Jan 2009
Link to audio file (32:45)In this episode we talk to Raúl Ordóñez about his new Motoman Robotics Lab at the University of Dayton and the research he plans to do with his high profile industrial ro...
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016
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2008 New Year’s special, with Dan Kara, Terry Fong, Dario Floreano, Steve Rainwater and Minoru Asada
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02 Jan 2009
Link to audio file (34:17)For our New Year’s episode, we’ll be giving you an overview of the trends in robotics for 2008 and an insight into next year’s developments with five expert...
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015
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Robot toys, with Mark Tilden
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19 Dec 2008
Link to audio file (36:53)In the spirit of the holiday season, today’s episode is all about robots as toys. We speak to Mark Tilden, robot designer at WowWee Robotics, about designing robots for...
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014
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Robot musicians, with Gil Weinberg and Atsuo Takanishi
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05 Dec 2008
Link to audio file (41:13)This episode focuses on robot musicians, starting with our first guest Gil Weinberg who is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Tech. With his wooden robot drummer Hai...
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013
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Robots Podcast: Bio-inspired locomotion, with Robert Full and Auke Ijspeert
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21 Nov 2008
Link to audio file (36:53)In our 13th episode we talk with biologist Robert Full from UC Berkeley about the research he’s been doing on animal locomotion and how his insights have been inspiring...
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012
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Androids, human presence and the uncanny valley, with Hiroshi Ishiguro
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07 Nov 2008
Link to audio file (32:40)This episode covers android science and human-robot interactions with expert Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka. After the interview we feature the last installment of Jack Graham&...
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011
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Jumping and crawling in millirobots, with Sarah Bergbreiter and Aaron Hoover
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24 Oct 2008
Link to audio file (37:20)This episode concentrates on how to scale down robots to the size of our creepy crawly friends, insects. Sarah Bergbreiter tells us about the micromachining techniques requi...
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Warehouse robots, with Raffaello D’Andrea
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10 Oct 2008
Link to audio file (39:03)In this episode we sit down with Raffaello D’Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and founding member of Kiva Systems, to spe...
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009
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Swarming autonomous underwater vehicles, with Navinda Kottege and Marc Sherman
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26 Sep 2008
Link to audio file (31:06)In this show we dive into the world of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with an emphasis on the challenges when having to localize and communicate in the deep blue. Whil...
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008
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An uncertain revolution, with Claudio Mattiussi
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12 Sep 2008
Link to audio file (38:11)In this episode we dive into the revolution brought on by the field of probabilistic robotics with Claudio Mattiussi who is Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent...
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007
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Bacteria-propelled microrobots, with Metin Sitti and Mark Schattner
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29 Aug 2008
Link to audio file (25:19)In this episode we look at bacteria-propelled microrobots which, in the future, could be used for sensing or drug delivery inside the liquid environments of the human body, s...
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006
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DelFly and Europe’s micro air vehicle competition, with Christophe de Wagter and Peter Vörsmann
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15 Aug 2008
Link to audio file (37:12)In this episode we talk about two major events in aerial robotics in the last few weeks: the announcement of the Delfly Micro and the 2008 European Micro Air Vehicle (EMAV) ...
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005
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The robot blogosphere, with Steven Rainwater and Mikell Taylor
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01 Aug 2008
Link to audio file (37:28)In this week’s episode we speak with two robot passionates who have been bringing you news and views on robotics through their blogs. We first speak to Steven Rainwater...
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004
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Modular and reconfigurable robotics, with Kasper Støy and Robert Fitch
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18 Jul 2008
Link to audio file (36:53)In today’s episode we focus on modular robotics, or robots assembled out of many smaller modules. Whether all the modules are the same (‘homogeneous’) or o...
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003
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Robots Podcast: Robot soccer, with Manuela Veloso
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04 Jul 2008
Link to audio file (32:34)To close this year’s soccer season after Spain’s victory in the EUROCUP we went to the robotic kingdom to see who was driving the game. With Prof. Manuela Veloso ...
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002
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A robot fly at Harvard and at the MoMA, with Rob Wood and Paola Antonelli
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20 Jun 2008
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This episode features an interview with Robert Wood about his micro-robotic fly, as well as a talk with the curator of design at the Museum of Modern Ar...
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001
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Cornell racing team and Velodyne’s LIDAR sensor, with Dan Huttenlocher and Rick Yoder
Podcast team
06 Jun 2008
Link to audio file (31:43)Link to transcriptOur inaugural episode centers on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, featuring interviews with professor Daniel Huttenlocher from Team Cornell and Rick Yoder fr...
