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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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Demining and DefusingIn this episode we speak with Frederic Guerne of Digger DTR and Paul Bosscher of Harris Corp.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: The Mind Machine ProjectIn this episode we speak with Newton Howard, director of the Mind Machine Project and research scientist at MIT.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Schunk ManipulatorsIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: The Bilibot ProjectIn today's episode we talk about a new generation of affordable robots with the Bilibot project and its leader Garratt Gallagher.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Blended RealityIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Robotic ArtsOur 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Mind ControlIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Future Manipulatorsn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: TelepresenceIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Robotics Roadmaps – JapanThis 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Odor Source LocalizationIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Harvest AutomationJoe 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Multi-Robot TeamsVijay 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Science Fiction IIIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Personal HelpersIn 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Dependable SwarmsAlan 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Autonomous VehiclesIn 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.
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Alberto Broggi is the Director of the Artificial Vision and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Amateur UAVsChris 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: FuturamaDavid X. Cohen describes the robots in Futurama and his vision on the future.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: OlfactionAchim 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: The LawRyan Calo, Senior Research Fellow at Stanford Law-School, discusses liability & privacy issues when considering robots and the law.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Programmable MatterMichael Tolley and Jonas Neubert from the Computational Synthesis Laboratory run by Hod Lipson at Cornell University present their approach at making programmable matter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Distributed Flight ArrayRaymond 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Science FictionPatrick 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: NanosystemsAri Requicha from the University of Southern California and Grégory Mermoud from EPFL describe the soft- and hardware aspects of designing systems of nanorobots.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: R&D at iRobotBrian 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Modeling BiologyBarbara 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Online Human-Robot InteractionsSonia 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: The Nao HumanoidLuc 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: URBI Software PlatformJean-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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Chaos ControlPoramate 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: The Future of Artificial IntelligenceKristinn R. Thórisson on the past, present and future of Artificial Intelligence.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Satellite SwarmsAlvar Saenz-Otero from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks about miniature satellites that create swarms in space.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: AUV MissionsOscar 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: QuadrotorsJoshua 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Deep-Sea ExplorationAlberto 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: New Year's SpecialCecilia 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Weight-Loss CoachCory 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Planetary ExplorationJulie 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: LearningAndrea 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Stroke RehabilitationLudovic 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Slithering CreaturesHowie 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Active TouchTony 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Robots: Emergent CommunicationSara 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |