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#294: Autonomous Bricklaying by FBR, with Mark Pivac
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Mark Pivac, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of FBR (formerly Fastbrick Robotics) about the world’s first end-to-end autonomous bricklaying robot,...
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#311: Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt, with Dave Coleman
Robohub Podcast · Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Dave Coleman, CEO of PickNik Robotics, about the open source robotics manipulation platform called MoveIt....
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#312: Safe Motion Planning in Real-time, with Luca Colasanto
Robohub Podcast · Safe Motion Planning in Real-time In this episode, we hear from Luca Colasanto, Senior Robotic Scientist at Realtime Robotics, about real-time robot motion planning in dynamic and...
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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with...
Winning team: Angel Robotics with pilot Byeong-Uk Kim The last edition of CYBATHLON took place on 13-14 November, 2020. This competition, created by ETH Zurich and run as a non-profit project, aims to...
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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with...
Winning team: HSR Enhanced with pilot Florian Hauser In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the HSR Enhanced team from the Eastern Switzerland...
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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the functional electrical stimulation...
Winning team pilot Sander Koomen In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of PULSE Racing from VU University Amsterdam. We also had the chance to interview...
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#328: Inside Cybathlon, with Anni Kern
Robohub Podcast · Inside Cybathlon Kate speaks with Anni Kern, Head of Communication, strategy, and teams at Cybathlon for over four years. She describes the motivation and concepts for the Cybathlon...
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Q&A: Vivienne Sze on crossing the hardware-software divide for efficient...
Associate professor Vivienne Sze is bringing artificial intelligence applications to smartphones and tiny robots by co-designing energy-efficient hardware and software. Image credits: Lillie Paquette,...
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Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks
This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München....
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Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro
The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction...
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Academic and industry collaboration (Part 3): Interview with Minoru Asada
Established experts in the field of robotics were recently interviewed by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. Motivated by the fact that...
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Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster...
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Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks,...
As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International‘s Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who’s role there is to help identify important emerging robotics...
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Drones for Schools
To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn’t originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science...
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My pathway to robotics
My name is Jaidyn Edwards. I am eighteen years old and live in South Australia. For me, being interested in robotics was part of an evolutionary process built upon a few core interests I had as a...
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Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into engineering. We’ve already heard what it’s like to be part of an all-girls...
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Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
Aisoy, a spanish robotics startup, is motivated by the goal of building intelligent, personal, “social” robots, which make our lives easier and funnier. Their robot, the Aisoy1, is their first step...
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Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project
Michael McMaster and his latest creation – a life-sized Wall-E. If you’re a diehard Star Wars fan, or if you have a background in robotics, you might already know who Michael McMaster is. In the past,...
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Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the...
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Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda
An international leader in the field of robotics and automation, Toshio Fukuda is best known for his pioneering work on micro robotics systems — including microsensors and micro actuators — and his...
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Academic and industry collaboration (Part 4): Interview with Raffaello D’Andrea
TEDGlobal 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. June 12-15, 2013. Photo: James Duncan Davidson In this 4th interview of our four-part ECHORD series, conducted last June, Sascha Griffiths from TUM talks to...
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On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
Bruno Maisonnier at TedExConcorde. Photo credit: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ. Last week I dropped by Aldebaran’s studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. But...
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Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics
Raffaello D’Andrea’s robots can do amazing things: play soccer and ping-pong, perform complex choreographed acrobatics in the air, build towers brick by brick, and move pallets around warehouses. (See...
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Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun...
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us...
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs...
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Bionic athletes compete in disciplines drawn from everyday life
By: Vanessa Bleich Next year’s Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition is to...
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RoboBusiness Exhibition
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to several robotics companies at the company showcase at RoboBusiness 2014, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts. The following is an ordered list of the...
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Talking Machines: The Master Algorithm, with UW’s Pedro Domingos
In episode 20 we chat with Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington, who has just published a book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. We...
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In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground...
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When robots become art: Interview with Yi-Wei Keng
Hiroshi Ota and Minako Inoue with 2 Robovie R3 robots in Oriza Hirata’s “I, Worker” How can robotics help to enhance the development of the modern arts? Japan’s famous playwright, stage director Oriza...
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One being for two origins: A new perspective on roboethics
The concept One Being for Two Origins, from the teachings of Buddha, considers the unification of technology, nature, and human beings. It emerges from the theory of the three aspects: The values of...
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How do we regulate robo-morality?
In April 2016, British Standards Institution (BSI) published the world’s first ethical standard for the design, production, sale, and usage of social robots. “BS 8611: 2016 Robots and robotic devices”...
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Robotic Functions Validations: Interview with Jussi Aaltonen
Jussi Aaltonen explaining some robotics-specific topics. The UNEXMIN (Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines) project is almost one year old. After a busy first year of work, UNEXMIN is on-schedule to...
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Technical challenges in machine ethics
An Air Force airman at the control module of an MQ-9 Reaper. Credit: John Bainter/USAF Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to...
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Drones for good 2.0: How WeRobotics is redefining the use of unmanned systems...
Robotics undoubtedly has the potential to improve lives in the developing world. However, with limited budgets and expertise on the ground, putting this technology in place is no small task. Step...
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By 2030, will traffic jams be a thing of the past?
Imagine a future where self-driving cars, trains and buses are all seamlessly connected through an app, where traffic jams are a thing of the past and redundant car parks have been turned into green...
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Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine
Level 3 automation, where the car handles all aspects of driving with the driver on standby, is being tested in Sweden. Image courtesy of Volvo cars Today’s self-driving car isn’t exactly autonomous –...
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CUBE Tech Fair
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Torsten Oelkes, Executive Chairman of CUBE, about the CUBE Tech Fair. The CUBE Tech Fair is a conference that takes place in Berlin in May that seeks to...
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Dr Rustam Stolkin and robots that learn: Nuclear robotics meets machine learning
Heavy Water Components Test Reactor decommissioning. How can we create robots that can carry out important tasks in dangerous environments? Machine learning is supporting advances in the field of...
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Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be...
Credit: nutonomy Over the past few weeks, we’ve blogged about how machine learning is transforming research, nuclear decommissioning, and astronomy. Building on our “Ask the Experts” panel discussion...
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ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments,...
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How Simbe Robotics is Innovating in Retail
Kate speaks with Brad Bogolea, CEO and Co-founder of Simbe Robotics. Simbe Robotics developed a mobile robot named Tally, which is bringing advanced shelf insights to improve the retail shopping...
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Interview with Andrea Thomaz (co-founder of Diligent Robotics): socially...
By Sonia Roberts, with additional editing by Dharini Dutia Diligent Robotics, founded by Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu, develops socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals. Moxi, their...
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Exhibitors from ICRA 2022
At ICRA 2022, the researchers weren’t the only ones working with cutting-edge technology. We spoke to the exhibitors to get real-life demos of their products. Tangram Vision Tangram Vision is a...
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Retrocausal: The team at Retrocausal built a computer vision platform that allows any manufacturer to rapidly set up an activity recognition pipeline to assist with manual assemblies. Using any...
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RoboCup humanoid league: Interview with Jasper Güldenstein
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal of advancing the state of the art of intelligent robots, AI and automation. The annual RoboCup event returned to an in-person format for...
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ep.366: Deep Learning Meets Trash: Amp Robotics’ Revolution in Materials...
In this episode, Abate flew to Denver, Colorado, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the future of recycling with Joe Castagneri, the head of AI at Amp Robotics. With Materials Recovery Facilities...
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