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    Robot Pediatric Coach, with Ayanna Howard

      30 Sep 2017
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about her work to help children with the movement disorder cerebral palsy. Howard discusses ho...
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    243

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    Disney Robotics, with Katsu Yamane

      17 Sep 2017
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Katsu Yamane, Senior Research Scientist at Disney, about robotics in Disney. Yamane discusses Disney’s history with robots, how Disney currently uses Robots, ...

    Folding robots: No battery, no wires, no problem
      26 Jul 2017
    The traditional Japanese art of origami transforms a simple sheet of paper into complex, three-dimensional shapes through a very specific pattern of folds, creases, and crimps. Folding robots based on...

    The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
      30 Jun 2017
    The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...

    From drinking straws to robots
      16 Jun 2017
    By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft rob...
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    236

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    IASP 2016: Prostheses and Finding Shoes, with Vadim Kotenev and Vagan Martirosyan

    and   09 Jun 2017
    In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Vadim...

    Researcher to develop bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee for prosthetics
      01 Jun 2017
    A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics La...
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    234

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    Trik Embedded Platform, with Roman Luchin

    and   13 May 2017
    In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Roman...

    Teaching robots to teach other robots
      10 May 2017
    Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...

    Smart Grasping System available on ROS Development Studio
      10 May 2017
    Would you like to make a robot to grasp something, but you think that is impossible to you just because you can’t buy a robot arm? I’m here to tell that you can definitely achieve this without buy...

    TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
      04 May 2017
    Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a mini-van (you can read my original post here). Now, at DIYwalke...

    Are gestures the future of robotic control?
      29 Apr 2017
    A few decades ago, touchscreens were impressive, yet clunky pieces of technology reserved for applications that did little more than show off that touchscreens were possible. Today’s touchscreens ar...

    Collaborative robotics at the Automate and ProMat trade shows
      19 Apr 2017
    Six to ten years ago, exhibitors at Automate were promoting bin-picking in many, many booths. Bin picking wasn't mentioned this year because it is an available option these days. For the last six ye...

    The cheap arm project: An affordable, open-source robotics project
    and   30 Mar 2017
    What do you get when you put together wood and rope? Well according to Plymouth University's Professor Guido Bugmann: a low-cost, open source, 2 meter tall robot! All buildable for under £2000. The C...

    Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
      23 Feb 2017
    Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...

    NAIST OpenHand M2S released
      16 Feb 2017
    The NAIST OpenHand M2S was developed by a team of students as part of the school’s annual CICP project (read the blog post about it here), in which students can propose and organize their own resear...
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    227

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    RoboUniverse 2016: Agricultural Robotics, with Dan Harburg and Matthew Borzage

      04 Feb 2017
    In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews two speakers from the Agricultural track of the RoboUniverse 2016 conference in San Diego: Dan Harburg of Soft Robotics Inc. and Matthew Borzage of BioTac. Bo...

    Soft exosuit economies: Understanding the costs of lightening the load
      30 Jan 2017
    Last year, Harvard’s soft exosuit team provided first proof-of-concept results showing that its wearable robot could lower energy expenditure in healthy people walking with a load on their back. Mad...

    Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
      13 Jan 2017
    So – you’ve built a robot arm. Now you’ve got to figure out how to control the thing. This was the situation I found myself in a few months ago, during my Masters project, and it’s a problem c...
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    225

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    A Wearable Robotic Extra-Finger for Grasp Compensation, with Domenico Prattichizzo

      07 Jan 2017
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Domenico Prattichizzo, Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena and Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova in Italy, about a ...
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    223

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    Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff

      11 Dec 2016
    In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Edward Neff, founder of SMAC Corporation. Mr. Neff discusses how breakthroughs in his company have allowed them to develop linear actuators compact enough to b...

    Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
      16 Nov 2016
    Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
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    221

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    Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea

      12 Nov 2016
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...

    Students develop cheap 3D printing technique for soft robotics
      09 Nov 2016
    By Jurjen Slump. Students of Delft University of Technology have developed a new add-on for a 3D printer that can cast silicones inside a 3D printed shell during the printing process. This new, and...
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    218

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    RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh

      03 Oct 2016
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
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    217

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    LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner

      17 Sep 2016
    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
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    216

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    ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy

      02 Sep 2016
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ekaterina Bereziy, Founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, about exoskeletons for the disabled and for rehabilitation. Transcript below....
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    215

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    Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr

      20 Aug 2016
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to the amputation of both of his legs below the knee and how th...
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    214

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    Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson

      06 Aug 2016
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
    ep.

    211

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    ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier

      25 Jun 2016
    This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Societyâ€...

    Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
      22 Feb 2016
    Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
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    188

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    Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru

      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

      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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    184

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    CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener

      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...

    Firmer footing for robots with smart walking sticks
      26 Nov 2014
    Anyone who has ever watched a humanoid robot move around in the real world — an "unstructured environment," in research parlance — knows how hard it is for a machine to plan complex movements, bal...

    Grasping unknown objects
      06 May 2014
    This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. To manipulate objects, robots are often required to estimate their position and orie...

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