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Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

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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 managed and sponsored by the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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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 simulations alone, and he comments on whether we should build animal-robot hybrids and artificial animals.

Apr 13, 2007•17 min

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 robots.

Mar 30, 2007•26 min

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 locomotion including gait changes, and how they are used in his robot.

Mar 16, 2007•27 min

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 state of the art in micro-robotics, and about the potential of hybrid bio-mechanical robots.

Mar 02, 2007•27 min

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 as well as the challenges that researchers in these fields will face.

Feb 16, 2007•25 min

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 science book.

Feb 02, 2007•38 min

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 which closely copies human muscular and skeletal structure.

Jan 19, 2007•22 min

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, and on why your living room is more complex to navigate than an extraterrestrial planet.

Dec 08, 2006•24 min

Talking Robots: Barbara Webb - Biorobotics

In this episode Barbara Webb presents her cricket robot, explains why it is sometimes easier to build a robot than a computer model, and speculates on the future of animal-robot hybrids.

Oct 27, 2006•15 min

Talking Robots: Terry Fong - Human-Robot Teams

In this episode we interview Terry Fong about peer-to-peer human-robot interactions in a team including a seam-welding humanoid robot, an inspection space rover, a remote support crew and two astronauts.

Sep 29, 2006•19 min
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