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bStem, with Todd Hylton

Audrow Nash 01 May 2015

[clear] 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...

Dmitry Grishin on evaluating robotic investment opportunities

Dmitry Grishin and Hallie Siegel 25 Jul 2013

As part of our series on high-risk, high-reward robotics, and as a follow-up to his recent Robot's Podcast interview, I asked entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dmitry Grishin to talk to us about how...

DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids

Hallie Siegel 24 Jul 2013

Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...

euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach

Alan Winfield 22 Jul 2013

A week ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge unveiled the ATLAS humanoid robot, which will be used by seven competing teams. Developed by Boston Dynamics, ATLAS is an imposing 1.8m 150Kg bipedal humano...

Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics

Rich Mahoney and Hallie Siegel 18 Jul 2013

As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...

China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation

CHEN Fei 17 Jul 2013

With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...

Neurorobotics hopes to aid development of brain-like computing technology, new diagnosis/treatment methods for Alzheimers

Florian Röhrbein 16 Jul 2013

Neurorobotics is one of the most ambitious fields in robotics and will play a major role in the newly announced Human Brain Project. This project was selected by the European Commission as a flags...

Robotics and the disruptive transformation of agriculture

John Payne 15 Jul 2013

Over the last few years, there has been increasing talk about the potential of agriculture as a market for robotics. Speaking about future markets for unmanned aerial systems in a recent presentation ...

Why fostering high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship matters to the economy, and what universities can do about it

Peter Seitz and Roland Siegwart 11 Jul 2013

For many people, the term “innovation” implies having a great idea, and hoping that somehow it will take off. According to H. Chesbrough, this is clearly insufficient, and in his definition, he is...

A dilemma of high-risk / high-reward

Frank Tobe 09 Jul 2013

Often funding sources - the groups taking the risk - are not the beneficiaries of the rewards of the venture. Intuitive Surgical is an example. NSF, DARPA and NASA funded a project to solve a very ...

Visions of transformative research: Risk-reward, variation-selection, hot trends, exploration of the wild

Juan Rogers 08 Jul 2013

Over the last 20 years or so, a sense that science has become conservative or incrementalist has developed, and calls for change in the approaches to public funding of research have been heard from va...

Funding high risk proposals at the National Science Foundation: A brief history

Marc Rothenberg 03 Jul 2013

National Science Foundation (NSF) efforts to develop a mechanism to fund research proposals that had a high risk of failure, but which also had the potential for high return, began in 1980. In that ye...

Astronaut on International Space Station successfully controls K10 rover on Earth, supporting use of telerobotics in future deep space missions

Terry Fong 02 Jul 2013

On June 17, 2013, Astronaut Chris Cassidy successfully drove a K10 rover on earth, via remote connection from the Surface Telerobotics Workbench on the International Space Station, showing that robo...