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
Clip" Sergey Levine: Generalization In Reinforcement Learning VS Supervised Learning"
June 01, 2021 21:01 - 2 minutes - 49 MBClip" Sergey Levine: Generalization In Reinforcement Learning VS Supervised Learning"
Clip "Sergey Levine: Learning Based Method In Soft Robots"
June 01, 2021 20:58 - 2 minutes - 36.3 MBClip "Sergey Levine: Learning Based Method In Soft Robots"
Sergey Levine: "Is Reinforcement Learning Sufficient For Designing Generic And Adaptable Robots?"
June 01, 2021 20:54 - 52 minutes - 819 MBSergey Levine: "Is Reinforcement Learning Sufficient For Designing Generic And Adaptable Robots?" Video format: https://youtu.be/UyOGMqMYarE
Feedback Request "Thank You!"
June 01, 2021 15:00 - 36 seconds - 994 KBTo serve you better, please let me know what do you think should be changed in the podcast :) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_QYphKsLJekJCB9S_z3piKtFwIpzqVAurUleYxb7oQLXZ3A/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
Clip: Steve Collins "Life Changing Advice"
May 30, 2021 23:03 - 1 minute - 31.4 MBClip: Steve Collins "Life Changing Advice" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Steve Collins: Life Changing Advice
May 30, 2021 23:03 - 1 minute - 31.4 MBClip: Steve Collins: Life Changing Advice by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Steve Collins "Exoskeletons & Passive Dynamics"
May 30, 2021 23:01 - 11 minutes - 207 MBClip: Steve Collins "Exoskeletons & Passive Dynamics" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Steve Collins "Exoskeletons & Passive Dynamics"
May 30, 2021 22:44 - 1 hour - 1.07 GBSteve Collins "Exoskeletons & Passive Dynamics" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Alex Alspach "TRI Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper"
May 29, 2021 16:09 - 9 minutes - 230 MBClip: Alex Alspach "TRI Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Alex Alspach "TRI Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper"
May 29, 2021 14:53 - 43 minutes - 965 MBFor more details about The Punyo Soft Gripper Bubble: https://punyo.tech/ Alex Alspach: www.tri.global/about-us/alex-alspach/ alexalspach.com/cv/ Bio: Alex leads an R&D team at TRI dedicated to solving the hard problems related to soft, contact-rich assistive robot manipulation and physical human-robot interaction. He loves designing and building soft robots that aren't afraid to make a lot of contact to get stuff done. Alex has been with TRI since early 2017. Before that, he was building ...
Clip: Michael Levin & Josh Bongard "Computationally Designed Organisms"
May 22, 2021 22:49 - 14 minutes - 332 MBClip: Michael Levin & Josh Bongard "Computationally Designed Organisms"
Michael Levin & Josh Bongard "Computationally Designed Organisms"
May 22, 2021 21:22 - 59 minutes - 1.05 GBMichael Levin & Josh Bongard "Computationally Designed Organisms" video format: https://youtu.be/86krKgoEzGQ
Clip "Aude Billard: Deadline For Conferences Is A Mistake"
May 21, 2021 20:44 - 7 minutes - 6.83 MBClip "Aude Billard: Deadline For Conferences Is A Mistake"
Russell Taylor "On Redundancy And The Unavoidable Trade-offs At Surgical Robotics"
May 16, 2021 16:02 - 5 minutes - 101 MBRussell Taylor "On Redundancy And The Unavoidable Trade-offs At Surgical Robotics"
Russell Taylor " On Redundancy And The Unavoidable Trade-offs At Surgical Robotics"
May 16, 2021 16:02 - 5 minutes - 101 MBRussell Taylor " On Redundancy And The Unavoidable Trade-offs At Surgical Robotics"
Clip: "Kohei Nakajima on Short And Long Term Memory For Understanding Material Dynamics"
May 16, 2021 15:39 - 5 minutes - 7.38 MBClip: "Kohei Nakajima on Short And Long Term Memory For Understanding Material Dynamics"
Russell Taylor "Surgical Robotics"
May 16, 2021 15:17 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBRussell Taylor "Surgical Robotics" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Soft Robotics With Kohei Nakajima
May 15, 2021 19:16 - 31 minutes - 49.6 MBSoft Robotics With Kohei Nakajima by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Agostino Stilli on Multi-Materials Design and Friction Controllable Surfaces"
May 13, 2021 23:47 - 1 minute - 17.1 MBClip: Agostino Stilli on Multi-Materials Design and Friction Controllable Surfaces"
Soft Robotics With Agostino Stilli
May 13, 2021 23:40 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBSoft Robotics With Agostino Stilli by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Raja Chatila on Turing Machine And Intelligence"
May 12, 2021 23:51 - 4 minutes - 92.8 MBClip: Raja Chatila on Turing Machine And Intelligence"
Raja Chatila "Cognitive Robotics & Turing Machines"
May 12, 2021 23:43 - 55 minutes - 1.06 GBRaja Chatila "Cognitive Robotics & Turing Machines" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Kevin Chen " The Challenges of Multi-Material Design, Sensing, Actuation At Small Scale"
May 08, 2021 12:57 - 3 minutes - 47.7 MBClip: Kevin Chen " The Challenges of Multi-Material Design, Sensing, Actuation At Small Scale Robots"
Soft Robotics With Kevin Chen
May 08, 2021 11:41 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBwww.rle.mit.edu/smrl/research/
Clip: Chelsea Finn "On Counter-Intuitive Hard Problems In Robot Learning"
May 03, 2021 22:55 - 2 minutes - 68.1 MBClip: Chelsea Finn "On Counter-Intuitive Hard Problems In Robot Learning"
Chelsea Finn "Continual, Generic Learning & Meta-Learning For Robotic Interaction"
May 03, 2021 21:32 - 41 minutes - 38 MBChelsea Finn "Continual, Generic Learning & Meta-Learning For Robotic Interaction" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip "Sandy Munro: On Risk In Products' Ideas (Tesla, Apple, Intel) & MBA Is A Waste of Time"
May 03, 2021 19:33 - 4 minutes - 3.93 MBClip "Sandy Munro: On Risk In Products' Ideas (Tesla, Apple, Intel) & MBA Is A Waste of Time" The full video format: https://youtu.be/-IUPD4TjJM8
Clip: Jeffrey Lipton "Mechanical Logic: Using Material Intelligence To Build Controller Loop In"
May 02, 2021 23:42 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBClip: Jeffrey Lipton "Mechanical Logic: Using Material Intelligence To Build Controller Loop In"
Soft Robotics With Jeffrey Lipton
May 02, 2021 23:32 - 1 hour - 116 MBSoft Robotics With Jeffrey Lipton by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Alexander Mordvintsev "On NFTs(Non Fungible Tokens)"
April 29, 2021 22:38 - 1 minute - 2.88 MBClip: Alexander Mordvintsev " On NFTs(Non Fungible Tokens)"
Clip: Alexander Mordvintsev "Growing Neural Cellular Automata For Soft Robots"
April 29, 2021 21:20 - 7 minutes - 142 MBClip: Alexander Mordvintsev "Growing Neural Cellular Automata For Soft Robots"
Alexander Mordvintsev "Growing Neural Cellular Automata- Self-Organizing Systems"
April 29, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 1.3 GBAlexander Mordvintsev, the creator of DeepDream, Alex is a research scientist at Google Google Research on Deep Neural Network visualization.
Clip: "Donald Hoffman vs Elon Musk & Nick Bostrom On Whether Do We Live In Simulation"
April 25, 2021 16:28 - 3 minutes - 81.8 MBClip: "Donald Hoffman vs Elon Musk & Nick Bostrom On Whether Do We Live In Simulation"
Clip: Fumiya Iida "The Missing Tools For Measuring Body Complexity"
April 24, 2021 21:17 - 1 minute - 25.8 MBClip: Fumiya Iida "The Missing Tools For Measuring Body Complexity"
Fumiya Iida “Thoughts and Recommendation On The First International Embodied Intelligence Workshop”
April 24, 2021 20:34 - 30 minutes - 419 MBFumiya Iida “Thoughts and Recommendation On The First International Embodied Intelligence Workshop” For more details about the International embodied Intelligence Workshop: https://eiworkshop.org/
Clip: Nicholas Cheney "Why Continual Learning Is Challenging?"
April 22, 2021 23:08 - 3 minutes - 44.8 MBClip: Nicholas Cheney "Why Continual Learning Is Challenging?" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Soft Robotics With Nicholas Cheney "Generic, Continual, and Adaptable Learning"
April 22, 2021 22:53 - 51 minutes - 417 MBI enjoyed this conversation with Nicholas Cheney, an assistant professor at University of vermont on Generic, Continual, and Adaptable Learning at Soft robotics, I hope you enjoy listening the episode.
Clip: "Markus Buehler: On Building Artificial Neurons In Materials"
April 18, 2021 23:18 - 2 minutes - 38.2 MBClip: "Markus Buehler: On Building Artificial Neurons In Materials"
Soft Robotics With Markus Buehler "Building Intelligence In Materials"
April 18, 2021 22:56 - 1 hour - 890 MBSoft Robotics With Markus Buehler "Building Intelligence In Materials" by Marwa ElDiwiny
Clip: Donald Hoffman "The Relationship Between Fitness Payoff and Objective Reality"
April 15, 2021 17:07 - 7 minutes - 163 MBClip: Donald Hoffman "The Relationship Between Fitness Payoff and Objective Reality"
Donald Hoffman"Do We Perceive The Reality As It Is? Is Space-Time Doomed?"
April 15, 2021 06:59 - 1 hour - 1.7 GBIt was a pleasure listening to Prof.Donald Hoffman "Do we see the reality as it is, Does evolution hiding the reality from us on purpose and dont favor it? What is the relationship between objective reality and fitness payoff? Is space-time doomed?
Clip: Lieven Scheire "Science Standup Comedy Is A Ruthless Environment"
April 10, 2021 15:26 - 2 minutes - 1.96 MBClip: Lieven Scheire "Science Standup Comedy Is A Ruthless Environment"
Lieven Scheire "Science Stand-up Comedy"
April 10, 2021 14:11 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBI truly enjoyed this in-person conversation with Lieven Scheire, it was inspiring to listen to the joyful and vulnerable moments of the ruthless environment of standup science comedy. I hope you enjoy listening
Clip: Dieter Fox "On NVIDIA Isaac SDK And Embodied Cognition"
April 07, 2021 13:03 - 4 minutes - 70.5 MBClip: Dieter Fox "On NVIDIA Isaac SDK And Embodied Cognition"
Clip: Karl Friston "Free energy principle"
April 07, 2021 12:45 - 19 minutes - 343 MBClip: Karl Friston "Free energy principle"
Dieter Fox "The Next Generation Of Robotics"
April 06, 2021 18:54 - 1 hour - 966 MBBio: Dieter Fox is Senior Director of Robotics Research at Nvidia. His research is in robotics, with strong connections to artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. He is currently on partial leave from the University of Washington, where he is a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. At UW, he also heads the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab. From 2009 to 2011, he was Director of the Intel Research Labs Seattle. Dieter obtained his...
Avi Loeb "Oumuamua & Academic Freedom"
April 05, 2021 20:41 - 44 minutes - 740 MBAvi Loeb "Oumuamua & Academic Freedom" https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
Clip: Sandy Munro "On Tesla's New Materials And Elon Musk"
March 31, 2021 15:57 - 4 minutes - 77.2 MBClip: Sandy Munro " On Tesla's New Materials And Elon Musk"
Sandy Munro "On Tesla's New Materials, Elon Musk, Kiichiro Toyoda, And Automotive Industry"
March 31, 2021 15:33 - 51 minutes - 1010 MBSandy Munro "On Tesla's New Materials, Elon Musk, Kiichiro Toyoda, And Automotive Industry" Video format: https://youtu.be/-IUPD4TjJM8
Clip: Gusz Eiben "You Cannot Evolve Everything That Reduces Your Fitness"
March 27, 2021 02:42 - 4 minutes - 79.5 MBClip: Gusz Eiben "You Cannot Evolve Everything That Reduces Your Fitness"