Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Talking Robots is a podcast featuring interviews with high-profile professionals in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics. It is brought to you by the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. New episodes are released every two weeks, on Fridays at 9am GMT. For more information, click the robot or visit http://lis2.epfl.ch/podcast
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2008
Talking Robots: Jean-Christophe Zufferey - Flying Insects and Robots
In this episode we interview Jean-Christophe Zufferey who is a researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the EPFL in Switzerland. He presents his 10g microflyer capable of navigating aut…
00:18:35 |
Fri 31 Aug 2007
Talking Robots: Chris Melhuish - Energy Autonomy
In this episode we talk to Chris Melhuish, who is the director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol and the West of England in the UK. Whether for your iPod or robot, we al…
00:24:02 |
Fri 17 Aug 2007
Talking Robots: Haruhisa Kurokawa - Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots
In this episode we talk to Haruhisa Kurokawa, who is the head of the Distributed System Design Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tec…
00:28:22 |
Fri 03 Aug 2007
Talking Robots: Martin Haegele - The European Robotics Market
In this episode we talk to Martin Haegele, who is the head of the Robot Systems Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, Germany. With his…
00:27:11 |
Fri 20 Jul 2007
Talking Robots: Daniel Wilson - How to Survive a Robot Uprising
In this episode we talk to Daniel Wilson about his Rave Award winning book on "How to Survive A Robot Uprising". With his humor in pocket, Daniel walks us through the worst Sci-Fi and Hollywood robot…
00:21:19 |
Fri 06 Jul 2007
Talking Robots: Roger Quinn - Insect-like Locomotion
In this episode we talk to Roger Quinn, who is the director of the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab at Case Western Reserve University. From the most complex to the simplest robots, whether they ev…
00:28:53 |
Fri 22 Jun 2007
Talking Robots: David Hanson - Human-like Social Robots
In this episode we talk to David Hanson about human-like social robots and his company Hanson Robotics. If you fancy tea with Einstein or a Sci Fi discussion with Philippe K. Dick, he might be able t…
00:28:11 |
Fri 08 Jun 2007
Talking Robots: Yasuo Kuniyoshi - Embodied Cognition
In this episode we talk to Yasuo Kuniyoshi about embodied cognition. By confronting his human size humanoids to their environment he proves that lifting heavy objects or performing some acrobatic mov…
00:37:33 |
Fri 25 May 2007
Talking Robots: Dario Floreano - Evolutionary Robotics
In this episode we talk to Dario Floreano about evolutionary robotics. From evolution to learning and from single robots to swarm systems, Prof. Floreano presents how evolutionary robotics can be use…
00:31:52 |
Fri 11 May 2007
Talking Robots: Rodney Brooks - Behavior Based Robotics
In this episode we interview Rodney Brooks on behavior based robotics. He talks about how mosquitoes in Thailand caused a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence, how to build robots that sell, …
00:32:49 |
Fri 27 Apr 2007
Talking Robots: Laurent Keller - Robots and Biology
In this episode we interview the biologist Laurent Keller on his experience with using robots for Biology. He talks about the advantages of using robots rather than theoretical models and computer si…
00:16:55 |
Fri 13 Apr 2007
Talking Robots: Jun Tani - Cognitive Robotics
In this episode we interview Jun Tani on robot cognition and robot consciousness. He talks about robot, animal and human brains, meta-level cognition, and on his interest in building schizophrenic ro…
00:25:41 |
Fri 30 Mar 2007
Talking Robots: Auke Ijspeert - Salamander robot swims and walks
In this episode we interview Auke Ijspeert on his amphibious salamander robot. He explains how central pattern generators are a powerful tool to link simple high-level commands to complex patterns of…
00:26:56 |
Fri 16 Mar 2007
Talking Robots: Metin Sitti - Nano-Robotics
In this episode we interview Metin Sitti on nano-materials such as artificial gecko hairs for robotics. He talks about his wall-climbing robots, about the advantages of down-scaling robots, about the…
00:27:20 |
Fri 02 Mar 2007
Talking Robots: Marco Dorigo - Swarm Robotics
In this episode of "Talking Robots" Marco Dorigo discusses his research in swarm robotics and swarm intelligence, and gives his views on the goals that should be targeted in these young disciplines a…
00:25:26 |
Fri 16 Feb 2007
Talking Robots: Rolf Pfeifer - New AI
In this episode of "Talking Robots" we interview Rolf Pfeifer, about the last 50 years in artificial intelligence, the "new AI", the central role of embodiment for intelligence, and his new popular s…
00:37:35 |
Fri 02 Feb 2007
Talking Robots: Owen Holland - Robot Consciousness
In this episode we interview Owen Holland about his rediscovery of the first autonomous robot ever built, his research in artificial consciousness and his life-size 'anthropomimetic' humanoid robot w…
00:22:11 |
Fri 19 Jan 2007
Talking Robots: Olivier Michel - Robot Simulation as a Business Opportunity
In this interview we talk to Olivier Michel, the founder of Cyberbotics Ltd., about his business experience with robot simulation, his current and future customers, software patents and on how roboti…
00:17:04 |
Fri 05 Jan 2007
Talking Robots: Josh Bongard and Hod Lipson - Resilient Machines through continuous self modeling
In this episode we interview Hod Lipson and Josh Bongard about a highly adaptive robot they built together with Victor Zykov that can continue working in spite of damage such as a lost leg, and on th…
00:25:52 |
Fri 22 Dec 2006
Talking Robots: Raja Chatila - Robot Navigation
In this episode we interview Raja Chatila on the state of the art in robot navigation, on how to marry traditional Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) with bio-inspired, reactive approaches,…
00:24:00 |
Fri 08 Dec 2006
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