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Unconventional Space Robots, with Stephanie Schneider

Lilly Clark 17 Dec 2021

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.

Stanford’s self-driving Delorean goes drifting for Back to the Future Day

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Oct 2015

Last night, I attended Stanford’s unveiling of their newest research vehicle for self-driving. An old Delorean has been heavily modified in order to perform drifting experiments - where you let the ...

Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment

Ioannis K. Erripis 04 Sep 2015

In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...

Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng

Talking Machines 04 Jun 2015

In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....

VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces

Robert Morris 26 Mar 2013

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...

Stanford’s self-driving car tears it up on racetrack – tops 120 MPH | Singularity Hub

Andra Keay 19 Aug 2012

The current run through Thunderhill is another example of how Stanford and Volkswagen engineers are set on pushing robotic car performance to its limits, quite different from Google’s singular goal ...