Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics
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Robots is the podcast for news, interviews and discussions on all aspects of robotics. New episodes are released every two weeks, on Fridays at 9am GMT. For more information click the robot or visit http://www.robotspodcast.com
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Robots: The Future of robot companions | In this episode, Paolo Dario talks about the future of robotic companions, where convergence between different fields of science and interdisciplinary teams become increasingly important. | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robopocalypse | In this episode we talk to New York Times best selling author Daniel H. Wilson about one of his latest books, Robopocalypse. | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Bringing them to Market | Following up on Episode 99, this episode features Steven Cousins and Roland Siegwart, whom we had the pleasure to meet at the SCHUNK Expert Days, organized by SCHUNK GmbH this spring. Our interviews bring to surface the dynamic interplay of academia and industry - we talk about the transition from the research lab to the market. Listen in and find out which robotic applications are bound to make great breakthroughs soon! | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: History and Outlook | In today's episode we speak with two of the founding fathers of robotics, George Bekey and Rodney Brooks about the last 50 years of robotics, the ongoing robot revolution and future prospects. | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Dynamic Systems | To celebrate our 100th episode, we welcome Raffaello D'Andrea, Professor at ETHZ and co-founder of Kiva Systems. He gives us his first impressions after the acquisition of Kiva by Amazon and presents his work in dynamic systems. | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Dexterous Manipulation and Morphogenesis | This episode features two of the key speakers from this year's SCHUNK Expert Days, Bruno Siciliano and Rolf Pfeifer. We took advantage of the stimulating conference atmosphere to ask them more about dexterous manipulators and morphogenesis. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Self-Organizing Systems | In today's episode we focus on self-organizing systems in modular and swarm robotics with Radhika Nagpal, director of the Self-Organized Systems Research Group at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Senseable Robots | In today's episode we look at some of the work done by the Senseable City Lab. We'll be talking to Carlo Ratti, the director of the lab, about two of their many projects - namely Flyfire and Seaswarm. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Advances in Bipedal Locomotion | In this episode we talk to Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the University of Edinburgh about the recent progress in walking robotics. We then speak with Felipe Brandão Cavalcanti who is an Electrical Engineering student working on stability and gait generation for humanoids at the University of Brasilia. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: From Reasearch to Industry in the AUV Market | Today David Lane from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh talks about his journey from research to business and back. He talks about how he got started in offshore work and robotics research and how that led him to develop new smarts for existing hardware. David shares his personal view on how the Thunderbirds, diving and the [...] | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Best of 2011 | In this episode, the Robots Podcast team looks at the robots and technologies that marked 2011. We'll be discussing industrial robots, cloud robotics, soft robots, service robots, aerial robots, autonomous cars, agriculture robots, bio-inspired robots, human-like walkers and swarm robotics. | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Turning Robots into Products | In todays episode we look at robots made by Adept Technology with Product Marketing Manager, Erin Rapacki. She talks about the robots developed at Adept, her hopes for mobile robots, the media hype that surrounds robotics, the need for researchers to think of real-world problems and cloud robotics. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robotics Roadmaps – USA | In today’s episode we discuss the national funding strategies of the USA, as a part of our special series on funding strategies worldwide. Our first episode on the subject looked at funding in Japan with Tomomasa Sato. Today we'll be focussing on the Robotics Roadmap in the USA with one of its main creators, Henrik Christensen. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Connectors & Modular Robots | In today's show we hear from our new collaborator, Per Sjoborg who is the founder of Flexibility Envelope, a blog on self-reconfiguring modular robotics. He speaks to Martin Nilsson from the Swedish Institute of Computer Science about his experience in making snake robots and connectors for modular robotics. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Made in Brazil | In today's show, we take you all the way to Brazil. Marcelo Becker from the University of São Paulo (USP) talks to us about how mobile robots are going to help change agriculture, manufacturing and driving in his country. We then speak with Marcel de Sena Dall'Agnol a student at USP about the excellent robotics competition they organized at SEMATRON, a mechatronics conference organized by USP undergraduates. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Demonstrations at IROS | In today's show, we hear about two demonstrations that caught our attention at IROS. Péter Fankhauser from the ETH in Zürich tells us about the Rezero ballbot, a balancing robot that speeds around on a sphere. Mike Rubenstein from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard then tells us about their efforts to make swarms of 1024 robots a reality with the kilobot project. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: IROS Exhibit Hall | In today's show we take you around the Exhibit hall of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) that took place in San Francisco last week. IROS is one of the main conferences in robotics, attracting thousands of roboticists from around the world. By bringing you around the permanent exhibit hall, we hope to give you a feel for what it was like to be there. We'll be stopping at nearly every booth, talking to leaders in the field, asking about the robots we see, listening to robots, and even doing some demos along the way. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Educational Robotics | In today's show, we look at the playful field of educational robotics with expert Dr. Francesco Mondada, director of the MOBOTS group. We then dive into the details with Stéphane Magnenat (ETHZ), creator of the easy to use ASEBA software and Fanny Riedo (EPFL), builder of the low-cost educational Thymio II robot. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Art III | This episode is the last of this three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. He brings us into his world through in-depth conversations with 6 world renowned experts in the field. In today's show, we talk to Leonel Moura, a European artist born in Lisbon and robotics and Ken Rinaldo, Director of the Art and Technology program in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. Both artists are well known for their dual talent as artist and robot engineer, having built many of their systems themselves. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Art II | This episode is the second of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. David was our guest in previous episode with the Robots Podcast about robot art. He now brings us into his world through in-depth conversations [...] | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Art I | This episode is the first of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. You might remember David from a previous interview with the Robots Podcast. He now brings us into his world of robot art through in-depth conversations with 6 world renowned experts in the field. In today's show, we talk to Nicolas Reeves from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada and Stelarc from Brunel University in the UK. Both have worked together in the past on the floating head experiment. | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Our favorite Robots | The ROBOTS team has grown steadily over the years, filling its ranks with robot enthusiasts from the Switzerland, USA, Greece, UK, Brazil and Japan. We take care of everything, from digging out the latest news, to interviewing main actors in robotics, animating the episodes, maintaining the website, and mixing the podcasts. We're students, senior roboticists, hobbyists and journalists. In today's summer episode we decided it was time to share our two cents about 1) why we love robotics and 2) what robots spark our enthusiasm. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Demining and Defusing | In this episode we speak with Frederic Guerne of Digger DTR and Paul Bosscher of Harris Corp. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Mind Machine Project | In this episode we speak with Newton Howard, director of the Mind Machine Project and research scientist at MIT. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Schunk Manipulators | In this episode we speak with Henrik Schunk, Managing Partner of SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG and Chairman of EUnited Robotics about high-end grippers, service robotics and European endeavors. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Bilibot Project | In today's episode we talk about a new generation of affordable robots with the Bilibot project and its leader Garratt Gallagher. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Blended Reality | In today's episode we meet with Natalie Freed, David Robert and Adam Setapen from Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. They'll be telling us about the Playtime Computing System, a playground where kids can interact with the physical world and its virtual extension. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: European Robotics (Part 2) | Second of a two-part feature on the European Robotics Forum, an event jointly organized by EUROP and EURON and hosted this year in Sweden by Robotdalen. Thanks to an invitation by EUnited Robotics, we got a chance to be there and talk to some of Europe's major players in the field, from both industry and research. In today's show we speak with Bernd Liepert CTO of KUKA AG and president of EUROP and Rich Walker from Shadow Robot. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: European Robotics (Part 1) | First of a two-part feature on the European Robotics Forum, an event jointly organized by EUROP and EURON and hosted this year in Sweden by Robotdalen. Thanks to an invitation by EUnited Robotics, we got a chance to be there and talk to some of Europe's major players in the field, from both industry and research. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robotic Arts | Our episode today features David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. Having participated in numerous robotic-art projects (including the Cloudharp, SAILS, the Mascarillon) he talks about the opportunities and challenges of undertaking projects combining the contrasting domains of arts and science/engineering. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Mind Control | In today's episode we look at a novel way to interact with your robot: through mind control. Raul Rojas returns to our show to talk about how his AutoNOMOS team used brain waves to give commands to their autonomous vehicle, MadeInGermany. We then talk to Geoffrey Mackeller, CTO of Emotiv Systems, the producer of the EEG headset used as an interface for this project. | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Future Manipulators | n today's show we'll be talking about futuristic manipulators that look nothing like the typical industrial robot arms you've seen in factories. Our first guest, Heinrich Jaeger from the University of Chicago tells us about the soft universal gripper that was published in PNAS this year. Our second guest, Andrzej Grzesiak, presents the bio-inspired manipulator he created with Festo and that won the German Future Prize last year. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Telepresence | In today's show we'll have a look the next killer application in robotics, telepresence. Our first guest, Jean-Christophe Baillie, is the CEO of Gostai which just commercialized the Jazz series this year. Our second guest, Trevor Blackwell, presents his company's Anybots. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robotics Roadmaps – Japan | This episode is a first in a series about robotics funding and priorities worldwide. To start out, we'll be talking with an expert and leading figure in Japanese Robotics, Tomomasa Sato, who will give us insights into the Japanese robotics roadmap. | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Odor Source Localization | In this episode we revisit robot olfaction and take a closer look at the problem of odor source localization. Our first guest, Hiroshi Ishida from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology is an expert in the field, whose sniffing robots range from blimps to ground and underwater robots. Our second guest, Thomas Lochmatter from EPFL talks about tradeoffs between biologically inspired and probabilistic approaches to navigate a gas plume. | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Harvest Automation | Joe Jones, co-founder of Harvest Automation, presents the future of agriculture and speaks of lessons learnt from Roomba. Don't miss our new NEWS feature in partnership with robots.net. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Multi-Robot Teams | Vijay Kumar and Daniel Mellinger from the GRASP Lab at UPenn present their work on developing multi-robot teams for real-world applications. Some of their most recent work includes aggressive maneuvers, SLAM and cooperative transport with quadrotor platforms. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Science Fiction II | In this episode we dive into the world of famous science fiction writer Greg Bear. We then take you on an audio journey through one of his books, Mariposa. Finally don't forget to send us your YouTube holiday videos featuring robots. | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Personal Helpers | In this episode, Steve Cousins, CEO of Willow Garage talks about the advent of Personal Robots, their PR2 robot and the Robot Operating System ROS. Our second guest, Moritz Tenorth, tells us about his experience working with these tools and his PhD on helping robots understand and reason about their world. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Dependable Swarms | Alan Winfield from the Bristol Robotics Lab discusses the potential and pitfalls of swarm robotics and their use in real-world applications. He also talks about transparent science, blogging and robot ethics. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Autonomous Vehicles | In today’s episode we take a deeper look at what’s behind the hype over autonomous vehicles, and talk to two experts in the field, Alberto Broggi, leader of the Vislab Intercontinental Vehicle Challenge, and Raul Rojas, leader of the Made in Germany autonomous vehicle project. Alberto Broggi Alberto Broggi is the Director of the Artificial [...] | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Amateur UAVs | Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief of WIRED and founder of DIY Drones presents his community of UAV enthusiasts and all the open source software and hardware developed to make your robots take-off. | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Futurama | David X. Cohen describes the robots in Futurama and his vision on the future. | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Olfaction | Achim Lilienthal from Örebro University in Sweden and Lino Forte Marques from the University of Coimbra in Portugal discuss smell as a sensor modality for mobile robots. | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Law | Ryan Calo, Senior Research Fellow at Stanford Law-School, discusses liability & privacy issues when considering robots and the law. | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Programmable Matter | Michael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell University present their approach at making programmable matter. | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Distributed Flight Array | Raymond Oung from the Swiss Technical Institute of Technology in Zürich discusses the Distributed Flight Array, which is a new type of modular aerial robot. We then celebrate aerial robotics with a contest on flying robot noises for a chance to win a WowWee Bladestar. | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Science Fiction | Patrick Gyger from the Maison d'Ailleurs, one of the major Science Fiction museums in the world, presents the history of robotics in the genre and discusses interactions between science and writing. We the bring you a re-edition of the Selkies stories written by Science Fiction writer Jack Graham in Boston. You can find more of his stories at lonesomerobot.com. | 7/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Nanosystems | Ari Requicha from the University of Southern California and Grégory Mermoud from EPFL describe the soft- and hardware aspects of designing systems of nanorobots. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: R&D at iRobot | Brian Yamauchi presents the research & development done at iRobot. As lead roboticist, he tells us about a large range of government projects from making the PackBot platforms more autonomous, work in teams of even fly to more futuristic projects that involve making soft and deformable robots. He also discusses the business of iRobot and the ethics of military robotics. | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Modeling Biology | Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh discusses insect inspired robotics as a control system design approach. Steffen Wischman from the EPFL/UNIL then gives his view on when robots should be used to model biology and his interest in using artificial evolution. | 6/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Online Human-Robot Interactions | Sonia Chernova speaks about the new online game Mars Escape developed to study human-robot interactions. Lessons learnt will be demonstrated in a real-life replica of the game environment at the Boston Museum of Science, where visitors will have a chance to interact with the robot Nexi. Kenton Williams gives us more details on this very expressive robot. | 6/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Nao Humanoid | Luc Degaudenzi and Cédric Vaudel from Aldebaran speak about the Nao platform and the future of the humanoid market. Don't miss Nao presenting himself and check out his story telling skills. | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: 50 Years of Robotics (Part 2) | In this 51st episode we conclude our 2-part special on 50 years of robotics. For the occasion we speak with 12 scientists about the most remarkable developments in their field of robotics over the last 50 years and their prediction for next half-century. Today’s episode features Jean-Christophe Zufferey on flying robots, Dan Kara on the robotics market, Kristinn Thórisson on AI, Andrea Thomaz on human robot interactions, Terry Fong on space robotics and Richard Jones on nano robots. | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: 50 Years of Robotics (Part 1) | Today we celebrate the 50th episode of ROBOTS! For the occasion we speak with 12 scientists about the most remarkable developments in their field of robotics over the last 50 years and their prediction for next half-century. This 50th special is split into two episodes with the second half airing in two weeks. Today we speak with Rolf Pfeifer on robotics in general, Mark Tilden on robot toys, Hiroshi Ishiguro on androids, Oscar Schofield on underwater robots, Steve Potter on brain machine interfaces and Chris Rogers on eduction robots. | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: URBI Software Platform | Jean-Christophe Baillie introduces us to URBI, the universal robotics software platform that's already been implemented on several different robots and is going open source in May 2010. | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Chaos Control | Poramate Manoonpong speaks about using chaotic input to central pattern generators. Alex Pitti describes way to synchronise a non-linear controller to the dynamics of the body it is controlling. | 3/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Future of Artificial Intelligence | Kristinn R. Thórisson on the past, present and future of Artificial Intelligence. | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Satellite Swarms | Alvar Saenz-Otero from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks about miniature satellites that create swarms in space. | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: AUV Missions | Oscar Schofield from the Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab talks about autonomous ocean gliders and the Scarlet Knight that crossed the Atlantic. Mark Moline from the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences at California Poly State University speaks about his expedition to the Arctic with AUVs in freezing conditions. | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Quadrotors | Joshua Portlock from Cyber Technology in Perth Australia tells us about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and in particular the CyberQuad, a 4-rotor autonomous helicopter that can be used for surveillance and inspection of hard-to-reach places from the air. | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Deep-Sea Exploration | Alberto Collasius Jr. from the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US talks about his time at sea as expedition leader with the JASON remotely operated vehicle. | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: New Year's Special | Cecilia Lashi, co-coordinator of the Octopus European project, talks about a soft bio-mimetic robotic octopus arm; Hobbyist Carl Morgan, presents his sleek silver humanoid that rides behind your tandem bike and does all the pedaling; and Carson Reynolds, professor at the University of Tokyo, tells us about his high-speed robotic hand. | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Weight-Loss Coach | Cory Kidd is the founder of Intuitive Automata Inc. which commercializes a robotic weight-loss coach born during his PhD at the MIT Media Lab. He tells us about how good human-robot interaction can keep people motivated to eat well and exercise. We'll also be holding a Christmas contest for a chance to win two robot kits for beginners. | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Planetary Exploration | Julie Townsend from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California talks about her work with NASA's Mars rovers and the lunar ATHLETE robot. Sebastian Gautsch from the the SAMLAB in Neuchatel, Switzerland, tells us about the Atomic Force Microscope that was sent to Mars aboard the Phoenix lander in the Spring of 2008. | 12/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Learning | Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech looks at how humans can teach and humanoids learn with the hope to create good human-robot interactions. We then speak with Sethu Vijayakumar from the University of Edinburgh about machine learning and how it can be used to teach a robot hand to balance a pole. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Stroke Rehabilitation | Ludovic Dovat from the Singapore National University tells us about stroke victims' trouble re-learning to use their hands, and the robotic systems he designed to help with the rehabilitation process. David Brown tells us about the effects of stroke and his company Kinea Design that produces robots that help people learn to walk in unstructured terrain. | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Slithering Creatures | Howie Choset from Carnegie Mellon University explains the basics of snake robots, and how he hopes to see them used anywhere from disaster areas to industrial inspection or even surgery. Erik Kyrkjebø from SINTEF Applied Cybernetics in Norway speaks about their own pipe inspection robots as well as a snake robot designed for fighting fires. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Active Touch | Tony Prescott from the University of Sheffield speaks about active perception in rats, and presents his SCRATCHbot robot that features artificial whiskers. Elio Tuci from the Italian National Research Council speaks of a robot arm that can distinguish between different objects using active perception. | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Emergent Communication | Sara Mitri, researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne speaks about her bio-inspired experiments on the evolution of communication. Jürgen Jost, director at Leipzig's Max Planck Institute, discusses intentionality in robot communication. | 9/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Celebrating Invention | Dean Kaman from DEKA research speaks about the spirit of invention that drives him to create products that improve lives, and of the FIRST initiative that encourages young children to get engaged in engineering and science. | 9/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot-Assisted Surgery | Rainer Konietschke at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Centre explains the MiroSurge project for robotic endoscopic surgery. Woung Youn Chung at the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea explains using the Da Vinci surgical robot to treat thyroid cancer. | 8/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Brain-Machine Interfaces | Charles Higgins from the University of Arizona tells us how he uses insects to control robot motion. Steve Potter from the Georgia Institute of Technololgy explains how he grows neural circuitry in a Petri-dish and interfaces it with robots. | 8/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Smart Homes | Roger Orpwood, director of the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering in the UK explains how smart homes can be used to help dementia patients stay independent and receive better care. Andrew Sixsmith, Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada then shares his experience from a medical perspective. | 7/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Soft Machines | Richard Jones, Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield in the UK talks about Soft Machines, the future nanorobots inspired from biology. | 7/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: From Animals to Automation | Markus Fischer, head of the Bionic Learning Network project and head of Corporate Design talks transferring technology from biomimetic research to actual products and their work on the AquaPenguin, AquaRay and AirJelly. Victor Zykov, PhD and PostDoc from Cornell University talks about modular robotics and introduces his bio-inspired Molecubes. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Celebrity Robots Brought to Life | Fred Barton, also known as "Robotman", introduces Robby the Robot and talks about building robot collectibles for museums and fellow enthusiasts. | 6/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Autonomous City Explorer | Dirk Wollherr, senior researcher at the Technical University of Munich, and Astrid Weiss from the University of Salzburg on the design and the goals of the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) robot. | 6/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot actors at the theater | Swiss theater director Christian Denisart talks about his latest play where 3 of the 5 main characters are mobile robots. Nicolas Tomatis, CEO of Bluebotics Ltd., describes the three robotic actors, an obedient robot dog, a distinguished robot butler and a sensual female, in more detail. | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Collective Coverage and Self-Assembly | MIT's Nikolaus Correll on his robot swarms for turbine inspection and his latest research on cooperating networks. In part two Roderich Gross introduces the swarm-bots and his work on robot cooperation, self-assembly and division of labour. | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Giant Roaming Creatures | Theo Jansen describes his Strandbeest, giant walking creatures that can walk and sense their environments. We then talk to Jaimie Mantzel who is building a giant 6-legged robot on his mountain in Vermont. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Race to the Moon | William "Red" Whittaker, director of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about his team's bid for the Google Lunar X Prize. | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Learning with LEGO | In this episode we speak with Chris Rogers about the use of LEGO in educating young children in engineering, math and science. We then speak with Liz Herron on her experiences with children using LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic kits at the LEGO Education Centre. | 3/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The REEM-B and HUBO Humanoids | In this episode we speak with Davide Faconti, leader of the REEM project, one of the few European contenders in humanoid robotics. We then speak with Jun Ho Oh from South Korea who was the general chair of the last International Conference on Humanoid Robots for his snapshot view of the field as well as the HUBO humanoids developed in his lab. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Ethics (Part 2) | This second episode in a two-part series on Robot Ethics interviews Ronald Arkin, Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Georgia Tech University in the US. Topics include military robots, robots in the society, medical robots and legal responsibilities. | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Ethics (Part 1) | This first episode in a two part series on Robot Ethics interviews Noel Sharkey, Professor of Public Engagement, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Topics include military robots, robots in the society, medical robots and legal responsibilities. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Human-Robot Love | David Levy, author of the book "Love + Sex with Robots" and Kathleen Richardson who is a doctor of Robot Anthropology at Cambridge University discuss the future of human-robot relationships, both physical and emotional. | 1/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Industrial Robots in Research | Raúl Ordóñez from the Motoman Robotics Lab talks about research in industrial robotics and how he hopes to use visual servoing as a feedback mechanism allowing robot arms to accomplish complex tasks such as juggling. | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: 2008 New Year's Special | We review the biggest events in robotics in 2008 and look to what 2009 has to offer with our panel of experts: Dan Kara from Robotics Trends, Terry Fong from the NASA Ames Research Center, Dario Floreano from the EPFL, Steve Rainwater from robots.net, and Minoru Asada from Osaka University. | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Toys | Mark Tilden, passionate robot builder with WowWee Robotics, talks about designing robots for children, and what he thinks that scientists and researchers can learn from the toy industry. | 12/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Musicians | Gil Weinberg who is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Tech, presents his wooden robot drummer Haile that is capable of playing with human teachers and even evolving its own beats to reach robotic improvisation. He also introduces his latest robot, Shimon the Marimba player. Our second guest, Atsuo Takanishi describes the Waseda Flutist, a robot that mimics human lungs, vocal chords, and lips to accurately play the flute. | 12/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Bio-inspired locomotion | Robert Full from UC Berkley presents his research on animal locomotion and how his insights have been inspiring engineers to create robots. Auke Ijspeert from the EPFL then shares some thoughts on bio-inspired locomotion. | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Androids, Human Presence and the Uncanny Valley | Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University introduces his androids, including the robotic replicate of his then 5 year old daughter, a female android modeled after the NHK news announcer Ayako Fujii and a copy of himself, the Geminoid. He explains Android Science and how his explorations of the uncanny valley may help to understand human presence. This episode then features the last quarter of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies". | 11/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Jumping and Crawling in Millirobots | Sarah Bergbreiter from the University of Maryland gives us an overview of her work with robotic mobile sensor networks, walking and jumping micro-robots as well as fast prototyping of novel robots. Aaron Hoover at Berkeley talks about novel manufacturing techniques with smart composites. This episode then features the third part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies". | 10/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Warehouse Robots | In this episode Raffaello D'Andrea of KIVA Systems describes how hundreds of autonomous robots can be used to automate warehouses. This episode then features the second part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies". | 10/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Swarming Autonomous Underwater Vehicles | In this show we dive into the world of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with Navinda Kottege from the Australian National University. In the second part Marc Sherman from Teledyne RD Instruments tells us more about AUV technology and the importance of Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) for underwater navigation. Finally we are treated to the first part of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's story "Selkies". | 9/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: An Uncertain Revolution | In this episode we dive into the revolution brought on by the field of probabilistic robotics with Claudio Mattiussi. We then launch a most "uncertain" competition to see how good our listeners are at making probabilistic predictions to estimate the cleaning capabilities of a Roomba robot. | 9/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Bacteria-propelled microrobots | This episode discusses bacteria-propelled micro robots and their potential for medical applications inside the human body. In the first part Metin Sitti explains how his robots can join forces with bacteria. In the second part gastroenterologist Mark Schattner discusses current uses and future potential from a medical perspective. | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: DelFly and Europe's Micro Air Vehicle Competition | In this episode we cover two major events in aerial robotics: the announcement of the DelFly Micro and the 2008 European Micro Air Vehicle (EMAV) Competition. We first speak with Christophe de Wagter, a member of the Dutch team that's been churning out amazing flapping-wing robots in the last few years. Our second interview features Peter Vörsmann, chair of this year's EMAV competition, to explain the latest advances in autonomous flying vehicles. | 8/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: The Robot Blogosphere | This episode gives an insight into part of the online robotics community. We interview Steve Rainwater on his experience with robots.net, the first and probably largest robot community site online. Mikell Taylor shares her experience with the IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog and also gives us a quick insight into her current job at Bluefin Robotics. | 8/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Modular and Reconfigurable Robotics | This episode centers on modular robots. We interview Kasper Stoy on research in Modular Robotics. Robert Fitch gives an insight into Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots. | 7/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Robot Soccer | Manuela Veloso, President-Elect of the International RoboCup Federation, gives a look behind the scenes of robot soccer. | 7/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: A Robot Fly at Harvard and at the MoMA | This episode centers on the robotic fly, featuring interviews with professor Robert Wood at Harvard university and with Paola Antonelli, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. | 6/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: Cornell Racing Team and Velodyne's LIDAR Sensor | Our inaugural episode centers on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, featuring interviews with professor Daniel Huttenlocher from Team Cornell and Rick Yoder from Velodyne, a producer of LIDAR sensors used by several teams in the challenge. | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robots: 23 May 2008, Trailer 1 | Robots: Coming Soon! This is the trailer for the new Robots podcast, your source for news and views on robotics. Our inaugural episode will be released on 6 June 2008. | 5/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
This is great podcast for keeping up with trends and innovations in robotics
I learn a few interesting things with every episode. This podcast fills a great niche! The team picks out interesting stories and gets some very cool interviews. They are wonderfully international, too. No undue preference given to any particular country, company or lab. The only criticism I would offer is that the interviewers need to learn to stray from their scripts a little. The meta-gimmick of interviewers that just *might* be robots themselves only goes so far....
A Wonderful Podcast!
This is truly a very educational podcast, as well as a informational source of robotics that can't be captured in a magazine or web review. Good work!
