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inVia Robotics: Product-Picking Robots for the Warehouse, with Rand Voorhies
Lauren Klein
07 Oct 2019
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...
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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...
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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
podcast
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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256
podcast
Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić
Audrow Nash
19 Mar 2018
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...
Personalizing wearable devices
Wyss Institute
08 Mar 2018
By Leah Burrows
When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a bit ...
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255
podcast
Learning about Legged Locomotion from Birds, with Monica Daley
Audrow Nash
04 Mar 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Monica Daley about learning from birds about legged locomotion. To do this, Daley analyzes the gaits of guineafowl in various experiments to understand the mec...
Robotic interiors
MIT News
02 Feb 2018
By Rob Matheson
Imagine living in a cramped studio apartment in a large city — but being able to summon your bed or closet through a mobile app, call forth your desk using voice command, or have ...
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251
podcast
Open Source Prosthetic Leg, with Elliott Rouse
Audrow Nash
06 Jan 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Elliott Rouse, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, about an open-source prosthetic leg—that is a robotic knee and ankle. Rouse’s goal is to p...
Physical adversarial examples against deep neural networks
BAIR Blog
31 Dec 2017
By Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, and Bo Li based on recent research by Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bo Li, Atul Prakash, Amir Rahmati, Dawn Song...
Robust distributed decision-making in robot swarms
Michael Crosscombe
06 Nov 2017
Reaching an optimal shared decision in a distributed way is a key aspect of many multi-agent and swarm robotic applications....
Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?
MIT News
28 Oct 2017
Just in time for Halloween, a research team from the MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group has introduced Shelley: the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaborat...
Could we build a Blade Runner-style ‘replicant’?
The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic body parts can match the strength and emotions of their human creators. As someone who builds biolo...
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245
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
Audrow Nash
14 Oct 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make vehicles sa...
Robotic bugs train insects to be helpers
Horizon Magazine
10 Oct 2017
by Aisling Irwin
Tiny mobile robots are learning to work with insects in the hope the creatures’ sensitive antennae and ability to squeeze into small spaces can be put to use serving humans....
Energy, enthusiasm and spirit of cooperation: Award winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 announced
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
A language to design control algorithms for robot swarms
Lenka Pitonakova
28 Sep 2017
Designing and representing control algorithms is challenging in swarm robotics, where the collective swarm performance depends on interactions between robots and with their environment. The currently ...
“Superhero” robot wears different outfits for different tasks
MIT News
27 Sep 2017
From butterflies that sprout wings to hermit crabs that switch their shells, many animals must adapt their exterior features in order to survive. While humans don’t undergo that kind of metamorphosi...
#ERLEmergency2017 in tweets
SPARC
27 Sep 2017
The ERL Emergency Robots 2017 (#ERLemergency2017) major tournament in Piombino, Italy, gathered 130 participants from 16 universities and companies from 8 European countries. Participating teams desig...
