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Spotlights on Three Exhibitors from CVPR 2022
Short interview spotlights with three inspiring startups that exhibited at CVPR2022.
01 September 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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352
podcast
Early Days of ICRA Competitions, with Bill Smart
Bill Smart, one fo the early ICRA Competition Chairs, dives into the high-level decisions involved with creating a meaningful competition.
21 May 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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351
podcast
Duckietown Competition Spotlight, with Dr Liam Paull
Dr. Liam Paull, cofounder of the Duckietown competition talks about the only robotics competition where Rubber Duckies are the passengers on an autonomous driving track.
17 May 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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348
podcast
Mimicking the Five Senses, On Chip, with Rob Telson
Rob Telson dives into the Akida Neural Processor from BrainChip, which is mimicking the five senses from the human brain on a low-powered chip.
23 March 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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345
podcast
Autonomous Vehicles for Operational Logistics with Evocargo, with Oleg Shipitko
Oleg Shipitko discusses Evocargo's approach to transform the way we transport goods within facilities such as ports and warehouses.
07 February 2022, by
Kate Zhou
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344
podcast
Learning for Collaboration, Not Competition, with Jakob Foerster
Jakob Foerster, an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, dives into his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.
25 January 2022, by
Kegan Strawn
Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners
The award-winning authors describe their work on a system for general in-hand object re-orientation.
24 November 2021, by
Lucy Smith
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341
podcast
How Simbe Robotics is Innovating in Retail, with Brad Bogolea
Brad Bogolea discusses the innovation behind Tally, the autonomous robot from Simbe Robotics. Tally collects real-time analytics inside retail stores to improve the customer shopping experience, as well as the efficiency of managing the store.
23 November 2021, by
Kate Zhou
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340
podcast
NVIDIA and ROS Teaming Up To Accelerate Robotics Development, with Amit Goel
Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA, discusses the new collaboration between Open Robotics and NVIDIA. The collaboration will dramatically improve the way ROS and NVIDIA's line of products such as Isaac SIM and the Jetson line of embedded boards operate together.
23 October 2021, by
Abate De Mey
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?
Interesting discussion with Hod Lipson, head of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University in New York. Can robots be self-aware? Can they design other robots and self-repair? Why should we evolve rob...
13 January 2021, by
Marwa ElDiwiny
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323
podcast
Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov
Robohub Podcast · Multisensory Perception
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Jivko Sinapov, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, about his work on beh...
15 November 2020, by
Shihan Lu
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318
podcast
Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry, with Ayanna Howard
Robohub Podcast · Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech...
08 September 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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304
podcast
Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Dr. Heather Culbertson, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, about her work in haptics. Dr. Culbertson...
17 February 2020, by
Shihan Lu
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303
podcast
Fostering Creativity: RSS Pioneers and the YOLO Robot, with Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Human-Robot Interaction researcher Patrícia Alves-Oliveira. Alves-Oliveira tells us about the upcoming RSS Pioneers workshop at the 2020 Robotics: Science and...
02 February 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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301
podcast
Listening like a Human, Playing like a Machine, with Gil Weinberg
In this episode, our interviewer Audrow Nash speaks to Gil Weinberg, Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Weinberg l...
10 January 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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297
podcast
Using Natural Language in Human-Robot Collaboration, with Brad Hayes
In this episode, we hear from Brad Hayes, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, who directs the university's Collaborative AI and Robotics lab. The lab’s wor...
11 November 2019, by
Audrow Nash
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296
podcast
Robust Robotics and the Quest for Intelligence, with Nicholas Roy
In this episode Lilly Clark interviews Nicholas Roy, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, about the Quest for Intelligence initiative and his research in robust robotics. Roy discusses ho...
29 October 2019, by
Lilly Clark
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295
podcast
inVia Robotics: Product-Picking Robots for the Warehouse, with Rand Voorhies
In this episode, Lauren Klein speaks with Dr. Rand Voorhies, co-founder and CTO of inVia Robotics. In a world where consumers expect fast home delivery of a variety of goods, inVia’s mission is to h...
07 October 2019, by
Lauren Klein
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289
podcast
On Design in Human-Robot Interaction, with Bilge Mutlu
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bilge Mutlu, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about design-thinking in human-robot interaction. Professor Mutlu discusses design-th...
24 June 2019, by
Audrow Nash
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272
podcast
Putting Robots in the Home, with Caitlyn Clabaugh
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Caitlyn Clabaugh, PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California, about lessons learned about putting robots in people's homes for human-robot interacti...
28 October 2018, by
Audrow Nash
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271
podcast
A Whimsical Robotic Artist, with Patrick Tresset
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Patrick Tresset, a London based artist, on robots that draw people using a pen and paper in a way that is similar to the drawing process for humans. Tresset dis...
16 October 2018, by
Audrow Nash
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270
podcast
A Mathematical Approach To Robot Ethics, with Robert Williamson
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Robert Williamson, a Professor at the Australian National University, who speaks about a mathematical approach to ethics. This approach can get us started impl...
01 October 2018, by
Audrow Nash
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261
podcast
Cozmo, by Anki, with Andrew Neil Stein
In this episode, Abate interviews Andrew Stein from Anki. At Anki they developed an engaging robot called Cozmo which packs sophisticated robotic software inside a lifelike, palm sized, robot. Cozmo r...
29 May 2018, by
Abate De Mey
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258
podcast
DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning, with Michael Laskey
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Michael Laskey, PhD student at UC Berkeley, about a method for robust imitation learning, called DART. Laskey discusses how DART relates to previous imitation...
14 April 2018, by
Audrow Nash
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257
podcast
Learning Robot Objectives from Physical Human Interaction, with Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey
In this interview, Audrow speaks with Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey about a method that allows robots to infer a human’s objective through physical interaction. They discuss their approach, the c...
31 March 2018, by
Audrow Nash
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256
podcast
Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matarić, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics. Socially ass...
19 March 2018, by
Audrow Nash
How artificial intelligence will transform higher education
As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the wa...
09 August 2017, by
David Gann and Mark Dodgson
Is AI powered government worth it?
From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of propr...
27 July 2017, by
Maëlle Gavet
Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from MI...
20 July 2017, by
MIT News
Asimov’s Laws won’t stop robots harming humans so we’ve developed a better solution
By Christoph Salge, Marie Curie Global Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
How do you stop a robot from hurting people? Many existing robots, such as those assembling cars in factories, shut down ...
17 July 2017, by
The Conversation
