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Perception and Decision-Making for Underwater Robots, with Brendan Englot
Prof Brendan Englot, from Stevens Institute of Technology, discusses the challenges in perception and decision making for underwater robots - especially in the field.
21 August 2022, by
Lilly Clark
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Controlling a Drone After Sudden Rotor Failure #ICRA2022, with Sihao Sun
Dr. Sihao Sun on his research for controlling a quadcopter after one of its rotors faces a sudden failure. His research takes in real-world assumptions where the quadcopter may already be in a compromised, difficult to correct orientation.
06 June 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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355
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SLAM fused with Satellite Imagery #ICRA2022, with John McConnell
John McConnell discusses the research presented at ICRA 2022 to reduce drift in SLAM algorithms by incorporating overhead satellite imagery.
25 May 2022, by
Abate De Mey
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354
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Autonomous Flight Demo with CMU AirLab #ICRA2022, with Sebastian Scherer
Sebastian Scherer from CMU's Airlab gives us a behind-the-scenes demo at ICRA of their Autonomous Flight Control AI. Their approach aims to cooperate with human pilots and act the way they would.
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24 May 2022, by
Abate De Mey
A newcomer’s guide to #ICRA2022: A primer
The upcoming ICRA 2022 conference will be the first robotics conference that many attend in-person for the first time since the pandemic. For many, it may be your first time ever attending an academic conference. Before it passes by you in a blink, we have a series of posts -- a "millennial's guide" if you will -- to help you make the most out of it.
27 April 2022, by
AJung Moon
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Improving Perception through Interaction, with Carolyn Matl
Dr. Carolyn Matl, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, explains why Interactive Perception and soft tactile sensors are critical for manipulating challenging objects such as liquids, grains, and dough.
21 April 2022, by
Shihan Lu
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Event Cameras – An Evolution in Visual Data Capture, with Davide Scaramuzza
Davide Scaramuzza deep dives into Event Cameras, a fundamentally new approach to capturing visual data
08 March 2022, by
Abate De Mey
Tim Chung: DARPA Subterranean Challenge | Sense Think Act Podcast #14
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Tim Chung, Program Manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), on the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge...
24 February 2022, by
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
Steve Macenski: Open Source Robot Navigation | Sense Think Act Podcast #13
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Steve Macenski, who is the Open Source Robotics Engineering Lead at Samsung Research America. Steve leads the Nav2 project, which is an open source robot navigat...
09 February 2022, by
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
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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
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Unconventional Space Robots, with Stephanie Schneider
Schneider, PhD Candidate at Stanford, explains her work on Reachbot, a long-reach crawling and anchoring robot repurposes extendable booms for mobile manipulation in Outer Space. They discuss the challenges and exciting elements of robotic prototyping for low-gravity or otherwise unique environments.
17 December 2021, by
Lilly Clark
Sense Think Act Podcast: Ryan Gariepy
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ryan Gariepy, Chief Technology Officer of both Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. Ryan speaks about the origin of Clearpath, how Clearpath focuses on making re...
21 September 2021, by
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
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Marsupial Robots, with Chris Lee
Robohub Podcast · Marsupial Robots
Lilly interviews Chris Lee, a graduate student at Oregon State University. Lee explains his research on marsupial robots, or carrier-passenger pairs of heterogen...
14 September 2021, by
Lilly Clark
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Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics, with Travis Schneider
Robohub Podcast · Mobile Outdoor Manipulation with RE2 Robotics
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Travis Schneider, Business Development Manager at RE2 Robotics, focusing on their work on mobi...
04 August 2021, by
Shihan Lu
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Swarms in Space, with Giovanni Beltrame
Robohub Podcast · Swarms in Space
In this episode, Lilly interviews Giovanni Beltrame, Professor of Computer and Software Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal where he directs the Maki...
10 May 2021, by
Lilly Clark
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Multi-Robot Learning, with Amanda Prorok
Robohub Podcast · Multi-Robot Learning
In this episode, Lilly interviews Amanda Prorok, Professor of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Prorok discusses her research o...
29 March 2021, by
Lilly Clark
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Computational Design, with Bernhard Thomaszewski
Robohub Podcast · Computational Design
Lilly interviews Bernhard Thomaszewski, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Montréal and research scientist at ETH Zurich. Thomaszewski discu...
27 January 2021, by
Lilly Clark
IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute
Interesting discussion with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, CEO of the Terasaki Institute, and one of the pioneers of the Bioengineering field. Prof. Ali’s journey from Harvard and UCLA to the Terasaki In...
26 January 2021, by
Marwa ElDiwiny
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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The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo
Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins
Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...
16 December 2020, by
Abate De Mey
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Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
Robohub Podcast · Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance
In this episode, our interviewer Lauren Klein speaks with Kim Baraka about his PhD research to enable robots to engage in social int...
02 December 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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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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Micro-scale Surgical Robots, with Eric Diller
Robohub Podcast · Micro-scale Surgical Robots
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Eric Diller, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, on wireless micro-scale robots that could event...
23 September 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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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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Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista
Robohub Podcast · Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Gennaro Notimista, a robotics PhD student in the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems Labo...
25 August 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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Introspective Robots, with Nathan Michael
Robohub Podcast · Introspective Robots
In this episode, Lilly interviews Nathan Michael, Professor and Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab at the Robotics Institute within Carnegie M...
09 August 2020, by
Lilly Clark
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RoboBee’s Untethered Flight, with Farrell Helbling
In this episode, Kate Zhou interviews Farrell Helbling, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics lab, who has worked on developing the RoboBee, an insect-inspired robot that is the lightest vehicl...
20 May 2020, by
Kate Zhou
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Learning to Grasp, with Jeannette Bohg
In this episode, Lilly Clark interviews Jeannette Bohg, Assistant Professor at Stanford, about her work in interactive perception and robot learning for grasping and manipulation tasks. Bohg discusses...
11 May 2020, by
Lilly Clark
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Seeing like a Rover, with Janet Vertessi
Robohub Podcast · Seeing like a Rover
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Janet Vertessi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton, on her book Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, ...
28 April 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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Coordination, Cooperation, and Collaboration, with Vijay Kumar
In this interview, Lilly interviews Vijay Kumar, Professor and Dean at the University of Pennsylvania. He discusses coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-robot systems. He also explain...
01 March 2020, by
Lilly Clark