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298
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Cognitive Robotics Under Uncertainty, with Marlyse Reeves
Lilly Clark
26 Nov 2019
In this episode Lilly Clark interviews Marlyse Reeves, PhD student at MIT, about her work in cognitive robotics and hybrid activity-motion planning. Reeves discusses the role of robotics in space, the...
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297
podcast
Using Natural Language in Human-Robot Collaboration, with Brad Hayes
Audrow Nash
11 Nov 2019
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...
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Oct 2019
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robot...
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296
podcast
Robust Robotics and the Quest for Intelligence, with Nicholas Roy
Lilly Clark
29 Oct 2019
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...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
Thilo Zimmermann
21 Oct 2019
“Within the framework of the European project ROBOTT-NET we are developing software and robotic solutions for the prevention and control of rodents in enclosed spaces”, says Marco Lorenzo, Service...
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294
podcast
Autonomous Bricklaying by FBR, with Mark Pivac
Ron Vanderkley
18 Sep 2019
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Mark Pivac, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of FBR (formerly Fastbrick Robotics) about the world’s first end-to-end autonomous bricklaying robot, ...
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293
podcast
A Robot to Help with Artificial Insemination, with Zhuoran Zhang
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Zhuoran Zhang, PhD student at the University of Toronto, about how robots can be used to assist in artificial insemination. Zhang discusses how precise robotic ...
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292
podcast
Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics about the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo. Both ROS and Gazebo are open source and are widely used in the robotics co...
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291
podcast
Medieval Automata and Cathartic Objects: Modern Robots Inspired by History, with Michal Luria
Lauren Klein
22 Jul 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Michal Luria, a PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about research that explores the boundaries of Human-R...
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289
podcast
On Design in Human-Robot Interaction, with Bilge Mutlu
Audrow Nash
24 Jun 2019
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...
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288
podcast
On Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation, with Milind Tambe
Lauren Klein
11 Jun 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Professor Milind Tambe of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California about his research using artificial ...
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286
podcast
Halodi Robotics’ EVEr3: A Full-size Humanoid Robot, with Bernt Børnich
Audrow Nash
13 May 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bernt Børnich, CEO, CTO, and Co-founder of Halodi Robotics, about Eve (EVEr3), a general purpose full-size humanoid robot, capable of a wide variety of tasks. ...
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285
podcast
On Storytelling Robots for Children, with Hae Won Park
Lauren Klein
01 May 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Hae Won Park, a Research Scientist in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, about storytelling robots for children. Dr. Park elaborates on enabling r...
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284
podcast
ERICA: A Robot Made to Look Human, with Dylan Glas
Audrow Nash
15 Apr 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dylan Glas, Senior Robotics Software Architect at Futurewei Technologies and former chief architect for the ERICA android in the ERATO Ishiguro Symbiotic Human-...
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280
podcast
Semantics in Robotics, with Amy Loutfi
Audrow Nash
18 Feb 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Amy Loutfi, a professor at Örebro University, about how semantic representations can be used to help robots reason about the world. Loutfi discusses semantic...
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279
podcast
Safe Robot Learning on Hardware, with Jaime Fernández Fisac
Audrow Nash
04 Feb 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Jaime Fernández Fisac, a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, working with Professors Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin, and Anca Dragan. Fisac is ...
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278
podcast
IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 3 of 3), with Ryan Gariepy, Lars Grimstad and Péter Fankhauser
Audrow Nash
20 Jan 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Ryan Gariepy, Lars Grimstad, and Péter Fankhauser....
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277
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 3 of 3), with Pauline Pounds, Philippe Morere and Yujung Liu
Audrow Nash
09 Jan 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Pauline Pound, Philippe Morere, and Yujung Liu about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in ...
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276
podcast
IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 2 of 3), with Kristoffer Richardsson, Michael Zillich and Paulo Alvito
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Kristoffer Richardsson, Michael Zillich, and Paulo Alvito....
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275
podcast
Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 2 of 3), with Robert Lösch, Ali Marjovi and Sophia Sakr
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Robert Lösch, Ali Marjovi, and Sophia Sakr about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Mad...
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274
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IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 1 of 3), with Gabriel Lopes and Bernt Børnich
Audrow Nash
27 Nov 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Gabriel Lopes, Robot and Control Scientist at Robot Care Systems, and Bernt Børnich, CEO and Co-founder of Halodi Robotics....
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273
podcast
Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 1 of 3), with Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell and Martin Karlsson
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell, and Martin Karlsson about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and S...
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272
podcast
Putting Robots in the Home, with Caitlyn Clabaugh
Audrow Nash
28 Oct 2018
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...
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270
podcast
A Mathematical Approach To Robot Ethics, with Robert Williamson
Audrow Nash
01 Oct 2018
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...
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
Thilo Zimmermann
10 Sep 2018
Four knowledge institutes across Europe - the Danish Technological Institute (DTI, DK), Fraunhofer IPA (DE), Tecnalia (ES) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC, UK) - teamed up to offer highly...
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268
podcast
Robotarium: A Robotics Lab Accessible to All, with Magnus Egerstedt
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interview Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about a way for anyone interested in swarm robotics to test their ideas on hardware, called...
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267
podcast
Robotic Weeding and Harvesting, with Chris McCool and Chris Lehnert
Audrow Nash
19 Aug 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris McCool and Chris Lehnert about different projects that relate to agriculture at the Queensland University of Technology. McCool speaks about a large r...
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266
podcast
Towards using Micro and Nano Robots in the Human Body, with Peer Fischer
Marwa ElDiwiny
06 Aug 2018
In this episode, Marwa ElDiwiny interview Peer Fisher, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the Director of the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck I...
Launch of ROBOTT-NET’s pilot projects
Thilo Zimmermann
24 Jul 2018
Irabia, Linak and Nissan have along with Trumpf, Maser, Piccolo, Weibel and Air Liquide been selected to team up on a real-world case study. Over the next 18 months ROBOTT-NET will take these eight vo...
Innovative programming software used to generate robot welding programs
Thilo Zimmermann
16 Jul 2018
Since programming is an extremely time-consuming business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are often forced to manage without robots. Researchers from Fraunhofer IPA have therefore developed ...
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264
podcast
Bio-inspired Soft Robots for Healthcare, with Yong-Lae Park
Marwa ElDiwiny
08 Jul 2018
In this episode, Marwa Mohammed Alaa Eldean Eldiwiny interviews Yong-Lae Park, Associate Professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, about the bio-inspired design and manufacture of soft...
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263
podcast
ICRA 2018 Exhibition, with Juxi Leitner, Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson and James Brett
Audrow Nash
23 Jun 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Juxi Leitner, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT; and Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson, and James Brett, from CSIRO.
Leitner speaks about the Amazon Pickin...
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262
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Cassie, a Bipedal Robot for Research and Development, with Jonathan W. Hurst
Audrow Nash
08 Jun 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Jonathan W. Hurst, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University and CTO and co-founder of Agility Robotics, about legged locomotion,...
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260
podcast
Hyundai’s Exoskeletons, with Sangin Park
Audrow Nash
14 May 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Sangin Park, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, about exoskeletons. Park describes three exoskeleton prototypes: one for helping workers reduce back pain, ...
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258
podcast
DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning, with Michael Laskey
Audrow Nash
14 Apr 2018
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...
Five projects make the first cut and receive a ROBOTT-NET pilot
Thilo Zimmermann
11 Apr 2018
It all started with 166 companies spread across 12 European countries appling for a “golden ticket” to ROBOTT-NET’s Voucher Program. 64 companies received a voucher and highly specialized consul...
