Soft Robotics Podcast
990 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHey! I am Marwa ElDiwiny, the host and creator of the Soft Robotics podcast. I started this podcast for a reason, one of them was to ask the questions I always wanted to ask when I was in the lab and reignite my curiosity by talking to interesting people. I found my purpose in this podcast, I hope it may inspire someone somehow along this journey!
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Episodes
Exclusive Interview "Unitree G1 - Humanoid agent AI avatar"
June 10, 2024 11:38 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBExclusive Interview "Unitree G1 - Humanoid agent AI avatar" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Pablo Molina "Kas, Avidbots" Autonomous Cleaning Robots
May 26, 2024 13:57 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBPablo Molina "Kas, Avidbots" Autonomous Cleaning Robots by Marwa ElDiwiny
Mike Fiorito "For All We Know: A UFO Manifesto" New Book
May 19, 2024 08:12 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBMike Fiorito is an editor, journalist and the award-winning author of eight genre-defying books: For All We Know, The Hated Ones, Falling from Trees, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habit, and Hallucinating Huxley. To connect with Mike: https://mikefiorito.com
Hamed Rajabi "Mechanical Intelligence, Metamaterial, Crack Deflection, Insect Wings"
May 10, 2024 19:53 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBMore about Hamed's work: https://hamedrajabi.com What is Mechanical Intelligence (MI)? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202203783 Complexity Biomechanics: a novel framework for sustainable and regenerative design and development: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0060 A few examples of how insect wings have inspired innovative designs: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211861119 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05206-1 h...
Old episode "Jennifer Mather "My Octopus Teacher, Octopus Cognition"
April 21, 2024 13:53 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBOld episode "Jennifer Mather "My Octopus Teacher, Octopus Cognition" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Corentin Coulais "Metamaterial, Geometric Imperfections, Instabilities"
April 16, 2024 09:52 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBSpecial thanks to Purvis Bedenbaugh, our podcast listeners who brought my attention to Corentin's work. Thank you Purvis! More about Corentin Coulais's work: -Endless domino effect https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2024/03/an-endless-domino-effect.html?origin=hqZwIY6%2FTt2p%2FbYjLQhlIg -Locomotion in non-reciprocal materials https://www.quantamagazine.org/wheel-made-of-odd-matter-spontaneously-rolls-uphill-20220615/ Plasticity and buckling https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04748
Bernt Børnich "1X Technologies Androids, NEO, EVE"
April 15, 2024 22:52 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBThanks to Scott Walter for co-hosting this episode, you can follow him on X @GoingBallistic5
Kevin Knuth "UFO Physics"
April 08, 2024 01:04 - 1 hour - 127 MBYou can support UAPX expeditions here: https://www.uapexpedition.org/support-the-mission For volunteering: https://www.uapexpedition.org/volunteer-with-uapx Kevin Knuth's Sol talk: https://youtu.be/HlYwktOj75A?si=EpzCxl8zk6IQvHS7
Old Episode "Will Jackson: Engineered Arts, Ameca, Humanoid Robots"
April 02, 2024 06:22 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBOld Episode "Will Jackson: Engineered Arts, Ameca, Humanoid Robots" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Round2: Markus Buehler "Spider Web Secrets: Exploring Materials, Structure, Modeling, and Sound"
March 29, 2024 17:38 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBRound2: Markus Buehler "Spider Web Secrets: Exploring Materials, Structure, Modeling, and Sound" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Announcement: InDEEP Prize, The U.S. Department of Energy’s "Bill McShane & Carrie Schmaus"
March 20, 2024 14:53 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBFor more details about InDEEP Prize: https://www.herox.com/indeep
Clip: Scott Walter on Custom Linear and Rotary Actuator Design in Humanoid Robotics
March 15, 2024 23:32 - 3 minutes - 3.52 MBClip: Scott Walter on Custom Linear and Rotary Actuator Design in Humanoid Robotics by Marwa ElDiwiny
Scott Walter "Humanoid Robotics in 2024: What's Next?"
March 14, 2024 07:45 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBYou might have heard about Figure AI raising a whopping $675 million recently. Investors like Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are all in on it. In this episode, we cover wide range topics on humanoid robotics in 2024.
Old Episode "XingXing Wang, Unitree Robotics" / "王星星, 优树机器人"
March 13, 2024 14:35 - 30 minutes - 25.5 MBOld Episode "XingXing Wang, Unitree Robotics" / "王星星, 优树机器人" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Kenneth Cheung: Coded Structures And Metamaterials For Space Applications
February 18, 2024 14:26 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBDr. Kenny C. Cheung, as the technical lead on advanced materials and manufacturing at the Ames Research Center, directs interdisciplinary research at the Coded Structures Laboratory, focusing on applying digital materials and algorithms to aeronautical and space applications. Fore more details :https://www.nasa.gov/ames-cct/about-us/ Science robotics paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi2746#core-collateral-share
Clip: Jacques Vallée "UFO Database, UFO Encounters, Human Consciousness"
February 07, 2024 23:21 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBClip: Jacques Vallée "UFO Database, UFO Encounters, Human Consciousness" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Jacques Vallée"Why was the Trinity UFO case kept secret??"
February 06, 2024 21:31 - 7 minutes - 10 MBClip: Jacques Vallée"Why was the Trinity UFO case kept secret??" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Marc D'Antonio on UFO Data And Leveraging String Theory For Time Travel
February 05, 2024 22:22 - 4 minutes - 4.56 MBClip: Marc D'Antonio on UFO Data And Leveraging String Theory For Time Travel by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Garry Nolan on CIA and Testing Materials Recovered from UFOs Crashes
February 04, 2024 20:18 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBClip: Garry Nolan on CIA and Testing Materials Recovered from UFOs Crashes by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip Curt Jaimungal "Collective Illusion, UFO Stigma"
February 03, 2024 14:31 - 55 seconds - 1.26 MBClip Curt Jaimungal "Collective Illusion, UFO Stigma" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Jacques Vallée "Aliens, Origin Of Universe"
February 02, 2024 19:31 - 8 minutes - 7.63 MBClip: Jacques Vallée "Aliens, Origin Of Universe" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Curt Jaimungal "Theories of Everything"
January 31, 2024 13:52 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (YouTube channel): https://www.youtube.com/@TheoriesofEverything
Clip: Larry Howell On Faith
January 28, 2024 19:34 - 4 minutes - 10.4 MBClip: Larry Howell On Faith by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Larry Howell On Mark Rober's Project
January 28, 2024 19:15 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBClip: Larry Howell On Mark Rober's Project by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip "Jacques Vallée on The Vatican And UFOs"
January 28, 2024 18:24 - 3 minutes - 8.49 MBClip "Jacques Vallée on The Vatican And UFOs" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Texas Instruments Partnership "Giveaway"
January 08, 2024 21:07 - 29 seconds - 404 KBI am excited to share our partnership with Texas Instruments, I am delighted to also share there are two giveaway offered by Texas Instruments Robotics. The two giveaway went to: Manav Gagvani, high school student: https://youtu.be/iv4fYgG7RRY?feature=shared&t=71 Matt Devlin, PhD student: https://www.matthewdevlin.com
Texas Instrument Partnership "Giveaway"
January 08, 2024 21:07 - 29 seconds - 404 KBI am excited to share our partnership with Texas Instrument, I am delighted to also share there are two giveaway offered by Texas Instrument Robotics for our audience: Two boards, "BEAGL-BONE-AI-64" which are designed for edge AI-enabled vision processing, a respected open-source development platform, and one of TI's established third-party co-marketers. https://www.ti.com/tool/BEAGL-BONE-AI-64#description For more details about the giveaway, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLS...
Matthias Thoma "Texas Instruments Robotics"
January 08, 2024 21:03 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBIn this episode we had a chat with Matthias Thoma is the robotics system manager of the TI industrial systems team. He leads a team of systems experts who focus on helping customers develop robotics solutions with TI’s analog and embedded processing portfolios. Matthias received his master’s degree in micro and power electronics at the Electronics and Drives Center of Reutlingen University in Germany. Prior to his current role, Matthias worked for 4 years as a FAE focused on the industrial ma...
Matthias Thoma "Texas Instrument Robotics"
January 08, 2024 21:03 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBI am excited to share our partnership with Texas Instrument, I am delighted to also share there are two giveaway offered by Texas Instrument Robotics for our audience: Two boards, "BEAGL-BONE-AI-64" which are designed for edge AI-enabled vision processing, a respected open-source development platform, and one of TI's established third-party co-marketers. https://www.ti.com/tool/BEAGL-BONE-AI-64#description For more details about the giveaway, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQ...
Electric Sheep Robotics "Nag Murty and Michael Laskey"
January 06, 2024 15:51 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBFor more details about electric sheep robotics: https://sheeprobotics.ai
Clip: Larry Howell "Redefining Intuition In Compliant Mechanism"
December 29, 2023 09:02 - 2 minutes - 2 MBClip: Larry Howell "Redefining Intuition In Compliant Mechanism" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Larry Howell " On Faith, Spiritual Guidance, World’s Smallest Nerf Gun's Project"
December 29, 2023 08:55 - 1 minute - 1.4 MBYou can access the 3D printing of One Piece Compliant Blaster here: https://www.printables.com/model/540528-one-piece-compliant-blaster
Larry Howell "Compliant Mechanisms & Designing World’s Smallest Nerf Gun"
December 28, 2023 20:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBYou can find Larry Howell's research group resources for 3D printing compliant mechanisms here: https://compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/maker-resources The micro 3D printing company involved in world’s smallest nerf gun https://quartisis.com/
Kaushik Jayaram "Unleashing Nature's Secrets in Robotics"
December 23, 2023 15:42 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBFor more details about Kaushik Jayaram's lab: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/jayaram An interesting videos to check out: https://youtu.be/IzoDqWKOXxo?si=ljmNoCgGqnR1c277 https://youtu.be/9wbLL_0vYsY?si=yZaaLln5aSw2IljL
Old Episode "Tim Morrissey: From Lab to Market: Artimus Robotics"- Enhanced Audio
November 07, 2023 16:06 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBOld Episode "Tim Morrissey: From Lab to Market: Artimus Robotics"- Enhanced Audio by Marwa ElDiwiny
Felix Von Drigalski "Mujin, Inc. : MujinController, QuickBot"
October 01, 2023 21:10 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBFelix Von Drigalski "Mujin, Inc. : MujinController, QuickBot" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Announcement: Soft Robotics Design Competition 2023 is Back, Applications till Oct 31st
September 10, 2023 14:40 - 42 seconds - 658 KBIt is wonderful to hear Soft Robotics Toolkit Competition 2023 is back after a break since 2018! Soft Robotics Toolkit is one of the most valuable resources for Soft Robotics, so don't miss this opportunity ;) Applications are still being accepted until October 31st. + You can apply as a participant or a judge. You can register you intent to compete here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4F6lJlYrCTSZLRjdFdBdMkbGEdWtLgNCoMKHxdvSKIYa8EA/viewform + Then you can fill the submission...
Life Doesn't Get Easier Or Forgiving You Just Get Stronger
September 08, 2023 20:38 - 3 minutes - 3.57 MBLife Doesn't Get Easier Or Forgiving You Just Get Stronger by Marwa ElDiwiny
Péter Fankhauser "ANYbotics, ANYmal X: The World’s First Ex-Proof Legged Robot"
August 18, 2023 11:53 - 37 minutes - 34 MBPéter Fankhauser "ANYbotics, ANYmal X: The World’s First Ex-Proof Legged Robot" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Bradley Dickerson "Fruit Fly, Halteres"
August 05, 2023 00:09 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBBradley Dickerson "Fruit Fly, Halteres" by Marwa ElDiwiny
(Old Episode) Marc Teyssier "Human-Like Artificial Skin Sensor"
July 29, 2023 13:46 - 53 minutes - 42.5 MB(Old Episode) Marc Teyssier "Human-Like Artificial Skin Sensor" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Philippe Goldman "Sananga Technology, PAZZI"
July 19, 2023 22:54 - 48 minutes - 37.7 MBPhilippe Goldman Co-founder & CEO of Sananga Technology, and former CEO Pazzi, the world's first robots for fully automated restaurants. Sananga is recruiting, for any inquiries: [email protected]
Round2: George Whitesides "Soft Robotics"
July 17, 2023 22:59 - 55 minutes - 127 MBSome parts of this conversation is done by AI voice cloning.
Old Episode: Hugh Herr Conversation (Enhanced Audio)
July 17, 2023 22:19 - 56 minutes - 48.7 MBOld Episode: Hugh Herr Conversation (Enhanced Audio) by Marwa ElDiwiny
Barry Trimmer on Alien, Extraterrestrial Life
July 01, 2023 15:20 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBBarry Trimmer on Alien, Extraterrestrial Life by Marwa ElDiwiny
Barry Trimmer "Soft Robotics"
July 01, 2023 14:34 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBBarry Trimmer "Soft Robotics" by Marwa ElDiwiny
George Whitesidies On God
June 05, 2023 22:57 - 1 minute - 1020 KBGeorge Whitesidies On God by Marwa ElDiwiny
Michael Levin On Collective Intelligence Of Morphogenesis
June 05, 2023 22:51 - 1 minute - 1.1 MBMichael Levin On Collective Intelligence Of Morphogenesis by Marwa ElDiwiny
I asked George Whitesides For Final Words, And This Was His Response :D
June 01, 2023 22:11 - 10 seconds - 162 KBI asked George Whitesides For Final Words, And This Was His Response :D by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Michael Levin Arguments about The Risk of AI And Diverse Intelligence
May 29, 2023 16:38 - 8 minutes - 7.94 MBClip: Michael Levin Arguments about The Risk of AI And Diverse Intelligence by Marwa ElDiwiny