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Robots is the podcast for news, interviews and discussions on all aspects of robotics. In addition to insights from high-profile professionals, Robots will take you for a ride through the world's research labs, robotics companies and their latest innovations. Primary Format : Tech News Language : Unknown Also Listed as: User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Robots Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Robots Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Robots Podcast 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website