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    Design, simulate and build a custom drone
    This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want? A new system fro...
    05 December 2016, by

    How the brain recognizes faces
    MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
    01 December 2016, by
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    100/100 Computer Vision Challenge, with Dieter Fox

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dieter Fox, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, about the 100/100 Computer Vision Tracking Challen...
    26 November 2016, by

    Keeping a robotic eye on pollution
    [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENcwT8mgDvg[/embed] By Ethan Bilby. Field robots and plane-based remote sensors can patrol the earth and the sky to monitor the gases that cause climate ch...
    19 November 2016, by

    Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
    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...
    16 November 2016, by

    Eliminating cords with wireless ‘millimeter wave’ virtual reality headsets
    One of the limits of today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI ...
    14 November 2016, by



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    Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea

    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...
    12 November 2016, by

    Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
    Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che...
    11 November 2016, by

    Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
    By: Larry Hardesty At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer ...
    10 November 2016, by

    How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
    What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
    08 November 2016, by and

    Robotics tutor for primary school children
    By: Ian Salter The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
    04 November 2016, by

    No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
    A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
    28 October 2016, by

    Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
    Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
    21 October 2016, by

    Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
    3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
    13 October 2016, by

    In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
    Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
    07 October 2016, by
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    RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
    03 October 2016, by
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    LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner

    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...
    17 September 2016, by
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    216

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    ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy

    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

    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...
    20 August 2016, by
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    Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson

    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 ...
    06 August 2016, by
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    213

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    Physics-Based Optimization for Robot Control, with Emo Todorov

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Emo Todorov, Director of Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Washington, about a physics-based optimization method for controlling robots. Todorov ...
    23 July 2016, by

    MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor
    Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....
    11 July 2016, by
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    212

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    Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
    09 July 2016, by
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    211

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

    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€...
    25 June 2016, by

    Building better trust between humans and machines
    MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....
    23 June 2016, by

    Ingestible origami robot
    By: Larry Hardesty In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated...
    13 May 2016, by

    Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
    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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    191

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    TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias

    Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
    18 September 2015, by
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    189

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    Robots and Communication, with Eleanor Sandry

    Transcript included. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Eleanor Sandry of Curtin University about her new book Robots and Communication. In the interview, we explore human to anim...
    21 August 2015, by
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    188

    podcast

    Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru

    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)....
    07 August 2015, by

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