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.

Syndicated 2011-12-30 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

Robots: Turning Robots into Products

In todays episode we look at robots made by Adept Technologies 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.

Syndicated 2011-12-16 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-12-02 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-11-18 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-11-04 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-10-21 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-10-07 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-09-23 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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.

Syndicated 2011-09-09 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast

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 [...]

Syndicated 2011-08-26 07:00:00 from Robots - The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics » Podcast