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
Naveed Syed "Falling Walls Foundation"
January 13, 2021 14:01 - 42 minutes - 66 MBAn enjoyable discussion with Naveed Syed, the Head of Global Networks at the Falling Walls Foundation. When were Falling Walls founded and how is it connected to the peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall? How can we break the walls between science, technology, and society? What are the lessons learned after more than a decade of conferencing? Why is it important to bridge the gap between science and industry? I hope you enjoy listening to this episode.
Naveed Syed "Falling Walls Foundation: What Are The Next Walls To Fall In science?"
January 13, 2021 14:01 - 42 minutes - 66 MBWhat Are The Next Walls To Fall In science?" Enjoyable Discussion with Naveed Syed, Falling Walls Foundation. Since I was an undergrad student, I always see the Falling Walls foundation as a gainful opportunity for students to pursue their ideas. Falling Walls foundation completed ten years, and it was great to share the journey and the aspiration they hold for the change. I hope you enjoy listening!
Ana Diaz-Artiles "Soft Robotics In Space"
January 10, 2021 14:22 - 45 minutes - 70.3 MBInteresting discussion with Ana Diaz-Artiles, an assistant professor at Texas A&M University "Soft robotics for space applications" Mars mission: How can we integrate soft robots to help human motion in space? What would it take to simulate soft robots in a Micro-g environment? I hope you enjoy listening!
Vito Cacucciolo “What I learned From Herbert Shea & Life Advices”
January 09, 2021 23:29 - 6 minutes - 10.3 MBVito Cacucciolo “What I learned From Herbert Shea & Life Advices”
Vito Cacucciolo “Artificial Muscles Unit That Can Replace Servo Motors & Haptics Applications”
January 09, 2021 23:25 - 3 minutes - 5.75 MBVito Cacucciolo “Artificial Muscles Unit That Can Replace Servo Motors & Haptics Applications”
Vito Cacucciolo “On Risky Ideas: Stretchable pumps for soft machines?”
January 09, 2021 23:19 - 2 minutes - 4.37 MBVito Cacucciolo “On Risky Ideas: Stretchable pumps for soft machines?”
Vito Cacucciolo “Traditional Controller Vs Morphological Computation”
January 09, 2021 23:17 - 6 minutes - 9.89 MBVito Cacucciolo “Traditional Controller Vs Morphological Computation”
Vito Cacucciolo “What Kind Of Nonlinearities Do We Really Need For Soft Robots?”
January 09, 2021 23:14 - 8 minutes - 13.5 MBVito Cacucciolo “What Kind Of Nonlinearities Do We Really Need For Soft Robots?”
Vito Cacucciolo “What Are The First Steps In Material Design For Soft Robot Application?”
January 09, 2021 23:05 - 10 minutes - 16.2 MBVito Cacucciolo “What Are The First Steps In Material Design For Soft Robot Application?”
Soft Robotics With Vito Cacucciolo
January 06, 2021 13:14 - 57 minutes - 87.7 MBI enjoyed this discussion with Vito Cacucciolo, a researcher at EPFL. In this episode, Vito shares his experience in designing Stretchable pumps for soft machines. The Modelling challenges of dielectric elastomers, and electrohydrodynamics. I hope you enjoy listening to the episode.
Timothy Morrissey " HASEL Actuator Transition Challenges From Lab To Commercial World"
January 05, 2021 15:21 - 6 minutes - 10.3 MBTimothy Morrissey " HASEL Actuator Transition Challenges From Lab To Commercial World"
Timothy Morrissey "Artimus : The First Commercial HASEL Actuator"
January 04, 2021 22:18 - 46 minutes - 72.4 MBIt is interesting to see the first Commercial HASEL Actuator by ArtimusRobotics. I enjoyed this convo with Timothy Morrissey about the challenges of transiting HASEL actuator from the lab to the commercial world, I hope you enjoy listening! #softrobots Make sure to check out Artimus Robotics :) www.artimusrobotics.com/
Clip: Zhigang Suo "Intel chips' Interfacial Adhesion Problem"
January 04, 2021 00:19 - 7 minutes - 253 MBClip: Zhigang Suo "Intel chips' Interfacial Adhesion Problem"
Clip: Zhigang Suo "Solid Mechanics: The Connection Between Mathematics and Material Science"
January 04, 2021 00:11 - 5 minutes - 165 MBClip: Zhigang Suo "Solid Mechanics: The Connection Between Mathematics and Material Science"
Clip: Tim Morrissey "What I learned From Christoph Keplinger"
January 02, 2021 12:46 - 3 minutes - 6.01 MBTim Morrissey "What I learned From Christoph Keplinger"
Clip: Zhigang Suo "How To Pick Scientific Problem And Solve Them?"
January 02, 2021 11:29 - 5 minutes - 154 MBClip: Zhigang Suo " How To Pick Scientific Problem And Solve Them?"
Wishing You A Great Year! Reflections
December 30, 2020 22:12 - 3 minutes - 4.94 MBWishing You A Great Year! Reflections by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Herbert Shea “Haptics And Virtual Reality Challenges In Soft Robotics”
December 29, 2020 22:44 - 3 minutes - 6.01 MBClip: Herbert Shea “Haptics And Virtual Reality Challenges In Soft Robotics”
Clip: Herbert Shea “Can Dielectric Elastomer And Ionic Conductive Polymer Merged In One Material?”
December 29, 2020 22:38 - 2 minutes - 4.21 MBClip: Herbert Shea “Can Dielectric Elastomer And Ionic Conductive Polymer Merged In One Material?”
Clip: Herbert Shea “What Are Soft Systems?”
December 29, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 6.91 MBClip: Herbert Shea “What Are Soft Systems?”
Clip: Herbert Shea “Dielectric Elastomers Design Whislist and Trade-offs"
December 29, 2020 22:28 - 6 minutes - 9.46 MBClip: Herbert Shea “Dielectric Elastomers Design Whislist and Trade-offs"
Latif Nasser "The Art of Making Science Show "Benford's Law Connected Documentary"
December 29, 2020 13:45 - 19 minutes - 54.3 MBClip: Latif Nasser "The Art of Making Science Show "Benford's Law Connected Documentary"
Jen Heemstra On Solving Academia Challenges and How We Can Make it A Better Place
December 29, 2020 12:39 - 58 minutes - 340 MBIt was a pleasure to have Jen Heemstra on the Soft Robotics podcast to share her passion for advocating a healthy environment in academia, how academia Challenges. How would the pandemic shape the academic job market? Mitigating the inherent continuous pressure in academia. How to select your life mentor, and fighting the mental health stigma. I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Clip: Jean-Eric Paquet "On Open Access Publication Crisis and What Does EU Offer as Alternative"
December 27, 2020 22:14 - 22 minutes - 34.7 MBJean-Eric Paquet " On Open Access Publication Crisis and What Does EU Offer as Alternative"
How do you approach the ethical dilemma of military funding scientific research?
December 26, 2020 22:33 - 2 minutes - 3.72 MBHod Lipson: How do you approach the ethical dilemma of military funding scientific research?
Hod Lipson “Academia is very conservative for risky ideas?”
December 26, 2020 22:27 - 3 minutes - 5.93 MBHod Lipson “Academia is very conservative for risky ideas?”
Hod Lipson “Academia is very conservative for risky ideas, Revolutionary VS Incremental Work?"
December 26, 2020 22:27 - 3 minutes - 5.93 MBHod Lipson “Academia is very conservative for risky ideas, Revolutionary VS Incremental Work?"
Hod Lipson "What advice would you give to a roboticist before they interview?"
December 26, 2020 22:19 - 4 minutes - 7.8 MBHod Lipson: What advice would you give to a roboticist before they interview for an assistant professorship? What advice would you give to a 1st year robotics PhD student looking for a thesis topic?
Hod Lipson "Why don’t we have useful autonomous robots in the real world yet?"
December 26, 2020 22:17 - 1 minute - 3.07 MBWhy don’t we have useful autonomous robots in the real world yet?
Hod Lipson: Why should we evolve robots to do tasks that animals do so well?
December 26, 2020 22:15 - 4 minutes - 7.45 MBWhy should we evolve robots to do tasks that animals do so well? Shouldn’t we just copy their bodies and focus on control?
In what domain will an evolved robot be better in the real world than manually designed Robots?
December 26, 2020 22:09 - 3 minutes - 5.41 MBHod Lipson: In what domain will an evolved robot be better in the real world than manually designed Robots?
Hod Lipson “VoxCAD Development"
December 26, 2020 22:06 - 5 minutes - 9.51 MBHod Lipson “VoxCAD Development: Soft Robotics Design And Simulation”?
Hod Lipson “How We Can Design Self-aware Robots"
December 26, 2020 21:33 - 9 minutes - 15.1 MBHod Lipson “How We Can Design Self-aware Robots"
Hod Lipson “The First Robot I Built “ An Evolve Robot Design Another Robot?”
December 26, 2020 21:16 - 1 minute - 2.88 MBHod Lipson “The First Robot I Built “ An Evolve Robot Design Another Robot?”
Hod Lipson “The First Robot I Built “An Evolve Robot Design Another Robot?”
December 26, 2020 21:16 - 1 minute - 2.88 MBHod Lipson “The First Robot I Built “An Evolve Robot Design Another Robot?”
Soft Robotics With Hod Lipson
December 25, 2020 00:25 - 1 hour - 111 MBInteresting discussion with Hod Lipson, the head of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University in New York. In this episode, Can robots be Self-aware? Can robots design other robots and self-repair? Why should we evolve robots to do tasks that animals do so well? VoxCAD development for designing and simulation Soft Robots. Why don’t we have useful autonomous robots in the real world yet?" How do you approach the ethical dilemma of military funding scientific research? I hope you enjoy listen...
David Boyce "On Being A Physics Teacher and Building Small Aircraft As A Hobby"
December 23, 2020 13:04 - 1 hour - 1.03 GBEnjoyable conversation with Dr.David Boyce "On Being A Physics Teacher and Building Small Aircraft As A Hobby" Dr.David shares interesting anecdotes in physics on whether the universe should make sense to you. Also, life-changing advice from his teacher and how this changed him. I hope you enjoy listening
Yannic Kilcher "AI Pop Science"
December 19, 2020 10:57 - 56 minutes - 87.3 MB"AI Pop Science" With Yannic Kilcher. Yannic shares with us his passion for creating engaging and fun youtube videos for explaining the interesting machine learning papers. He also shares his thoughts about peer-review and what could be alternatives solutions. I hope you enjoy listening Yannic's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZHmQk67mSJgfCCTn7xBfew
Soft Robotics With Zhigang Suo
December 17, 2020 20:47 - 1 hour - 149 MBInteresting discourse with Prof.Zhigang Suo, a professor at Harvard University, It was a pleasure to have Prof.Suo on the soft robotics podcast to share his journey and anecdotes from Xi'an, China, and Harvard as a grad student with Prof. Hutchinson. The challenges of interfacial adhesion and integrated structure for designing electronic chips. How To Design Soft robots with high toughness for industrial applications. I hope you enjoy it :) Video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XQj_...
Ginger Campbell "Brain Science"
December 16, 2020 16:11 - 1 hour - 108 MBIntriguing discussion with Dr.Ginger Campbell about Brain Science, The difference between innatism and learning? What is consciousness, memory? Can we upload data to the brain one day to master a skill? Do insects have an awareness? Can more glial cells make you smarter? Can we simulate the brain? I hope you enjoy the episode. Dr.Ginger hosting the Brain science podcast for 13 years where she discusses with renowned neuroscientists the basic questions about the human brain. https://brainsci...
Soft Robotics With Fumiya Iida (Round 2)
December 14, 2020 11:32 - 40 minutes - 64.4 MBThoughtful discussion with Prof.Fumiya Iida (Round 2). Why is the agricultural soft robotics industry still not profitable? How can we apply multiple functionalities in one single material? What are the New aspects of Soft robotics manipulations? I hope you enjoy listening :)
Douglas Blackiston "Science has High Peaks And Also Long Low Valleys, Intelligence Has Many Facets”
December 12, 2020 13:50 - 2 minutes - 3.8 MBDouglas Blackiston “Science has High Peaks And Also Long Low Valleys, Intelligence Has Many Facets”
"The Beak of the Finch, Be Creative, Broaden Your Perspective Beyond What You Learned”
December 12, 2020 13:45 - 1 minute - 2.99 MBDouglas Blackiston “The Beak of the Finch, Be Creative, Broaden Your Perspective Beyond What You Learned”
Douglas Blackiston “We Must Avoid That Aspects of Science Becoming A popularity contest"
December 12, 2020 13:40 - 5 minutes - 9.26 MBDouglas Blackiston “We Must Avoid That Aspects of Science Becoming A popularity contest, PI is the brand, and measuring success through Retweets”
Douglas Blackiston “Structure VS Unstructured Environment Effects on Living System Performance?”
December 12, 2020 13:31 - 6 minutes - 10.7 MBDouglas Blackiston “Structure VS Unstructured Environment Effects on Living System Performance?”
Douglas Blackiston “How We Can Design Living Cells That Never Destructed Or Change Morphology?”
December 12, 2020 13:27 - 4 minutes - 7.64 MBDouglas Blackiston “How We Can Design Living Cells That Never Destructed Or Change Morphology?”
Douglas Blackiston “ Are Living Cells Intelligent? Do They Have Emotions?
December 12, 2020 13:23 - 5 minutes - 9.29 MBDouglas Blackiston “ Are Living Cells Intelligent? Do They Have Emotions?
Douglas Blackiston” How To Select The Right Living Cells For Your Application?
December 12, 2020 13:20 - 5 minutes - 8.92 MBDouglas Blackiston” How To Select The Right Living Cells For Your Application?
“Living Cells Are Hard To Predict, Open Loop VS Feedback Living Cells Selection For Curing Cancer”
December 12, 2020 13:09 - 6 minutes - 10.4 MBDouglas Blackiston “Living Cells Are Hard To Predict, Open Loop VS Feedback Living Cells Selection For Curing Cancer”
“How To Design Living Systems? Why Do Creatures Have A Certain Morphology In Their Environment”
December 12, 2020 13:04 - 6 minutes - 9.59 MBDouglas Blackiston “How To Design Living Systems? Why Do Creatures Have A Certain Morphology In Their Environment”