Wevolver Robots in Depth
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRobots in Depth (RID) is an interview series with everyone in robotics, from top entrepreneurs, investors and corporate leaders to researchers, political policy makers and domain experts.
The episodes are 30-60 minutes long, and a new episode is published each week.
The format of RID is that of a talk show with one host and one interviewee, both in the same space. The interviews are relaxed and conversational in style and cover every aspect of robotics.
Per Sjöborg hosts Robots in Depth. He is an experienced interviewer in the field of robotics, interviewing robotics experts regularly since he started his podcast in 2010.
Per is well connected in the robotics community and has attended the industry’s major events since 2008.
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Episodes
Building millimeter sized robots w/Professor Julien Bourgeois
March 13, 2020 15:13 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBJulien Bourgeois talks about self-reconfiguring modular robotics and how he is developing millimeter sized robots called Claytronics. Julien started out as a computer scientist. He was always interested in robotics privately but then had the opportunity to get into micro robots when his lab was merged into the FEMTO-ST Institute. He later worked with Seth Copen Goldstein at Carnegie Mellon on the Claytronics project. He tells us how he works on creating a world built with programmable mate...
Rescue robotics & using machine learning to detect gasses w/Achim Lilienthal
March 11, 2020 19:58 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBAchim talks about rescue robotics and how he is working with integrating sensors that can work and be useful in this challenging application like gas sensors. Achim got in to robotics from working in physics when the team hid did his PhD worked on gas sensors and he saw an opportunity to contribute based on his background in physics. He also talks about a strong personal reason for developing gas sensors as a family member was killed in a gas explosion when he was a kid. We also hear mo...
The impact of robots who start taking decisions like humans do. w/Cristina Andersson
March 04, 2020 17:47 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBCristina talks about the impact off the ever growing set of tasks that robots can perform and that they can start taking taking decisions like humans do. In 2013 she organized events in Finland during European robotics week and found that many people was very interested but that there was also a big lack of knowledge. She calls of more visions on how we can use robotics to address the challenges society face today. She is especially interested in three areas, Demography, many countries a...
Computer vision for field use in agriculture and recycling w/Michael Nielsen
February 28, 2020 12:18 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBMichael talks about his work in computer vision for field use in agriculture and recycling. He started out in computer vision in the agriculture space doing machine vision and 3D reconstruction of plants. He then moved to the Danish Technological Institute when they expanded their work on machine vision for field use in agriculture. Michael worked with a fusion of sensors like stereo vision, thermography, radar, lidar and high frame rate cameras, merging multiple images for high dynamic r...
Understanding the world around you using game theory w/Nicole Immorlica
February 21, 2020 14:14 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBNicole talks about game theory and how she feels that it is her way to understand the world around her. Nicole talks about game theory, a way to understand how intelligent agents, humans or machines, interact and optimize their outcome in a particular context. Nicole discusses how this process can be used to create user interactions that are understandable and can be used efficiently. We also hear about how dynamic games apply to robotics and how robots deal with the ever-changing world...
The social robot revolution w/Gabriel Skantze
February 12, 2020 12:33 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBGabriel Skantze talks about how he works with human robot communication, and about how the social robot revolution makes it necessary to communicate with humans in a human ways through speech and facial expressions. This is necessary as we expand the number of people that interact with robots as well as the types of interaction. Gabriel gives us more insight into the many challenges of implementing spoken communication for co-bots, where robots and humans work closely together. They need to...
Learnings from working + 20 years in robotics as an entrepreneur, teacher, lecturer, and researcher w/Lars Dalgaard
February 07, 2020 10:36 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBLars Dalgaard shares his experiences developing robots in many different contexts. We hear about Lars’ early work with large mobile robotics in a commercial nursery garden handling the transfer of plants from the greenhouse to the field. He also speaks about the Hydra project a self re-configuring modular robotics project that developed several different modular robotics systems including the Atron system. Lars felt that there was a problem with the process used to introduce robotics and ...
Mimicking human decision making with algorithms w/Adjunct Professor Harri Ketamo
February 05, 2020 09:29 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBHarri talks about AI and how he aims to mimic human decision making with algorithms. Harri has done a lot of AI for computer games to create opponents that are entertaining to play against. It is easy to develop a very bad or a very good opponent, but designing an opponent that behaves like a human, is entertaining to play against and that you can beat is quite hard. He talks about how AI in computer games is a very important story telling tool and an important part of making a game enterta...
Building Artificial Intelligence systems that can interact with humans w/VP of A.I Christian Guttmann
January 31, 2020 09:43 - 24 minutes - 22 MBChristian talks about AI and wanting to understand intelligence enough to recreate it. Christian discusses building systems that can interact with humans beyond regular computer interfaces. He started working with computers early, too early for advanced AI. He studied broadly, including philosophy, ethics as well as synthetic and biological neural networks. Christian has found a lot of inspiration in the old papers by Alan Turing and others. He sometimes envies them their opportunity to t...
Real world challenges with Artificial Intelligence w/Associate Professor Federico Pecora
January 30, 2020 17:34 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBFederico talks about AI and how the computer decides what to do and when to do it. Federico finds many interesting research problems combining AI and robotics. Being out in the real world challenges the AI algorithms and makes real physical tasks possible. Federico talks about working on AI and service robotics. In this area he has worked on planning, especially focusing on why a particular goal is the one that the robot should work on. To make robots as useful and user friendly as possibl...
Future innovations at the Robotics and Mechatronics lab w/ Professor Stefano Stramigioli
January 24, 2020 09:49 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBStefano talks about how he leads the Robotics and Mechatronics lab at University of Twente. The lab focuses on inspection and maintenance robotics, as well as medical applications. Stefano got into robotics when he saw the robots in Star Wars, and started out building a robotic arm from scratch, including doing his own PCBs etc. He also tells us about the robotic peregrine falcon that has been spun out and is now a successful company of their own. Check it out at www.clearflightsolutions.c...
Bringing together academia, industry and end users in robotics w/ Sebastian_Weisenburger
January 22, 2020 16:14 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBSebastian tells us all about the ECHORD++ project, and describes how ECHORD++ works with application oriented research bringing together academia, industry and end users to bring robotics to market, under the banner “From lab to market” We also hear about Public end-user Driven Technological Innovation (PDTI). Currently, two projects are run, one in healthcare and one in urban robotics. Sebastian shares how he adapts the information that comes out of research in a way that makes it suitabl...
Autonomous navigation and it's challenges w/BlueBotics CEO Nicola Tomatis
January 15, 2020 18:14 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBNicola talks about his long road into robotics and how BlueBotics handles indoor navigation and integrates it in automated guided vehicles (AGV). Like many, Nicola started out tinkering when he was young, and then got interested in computer science as he wanted to understand it better. Nicola gives us an overview of indoor navigation and its challenges. He shares a number of interesting projects, including professional cleaning and intralogistics in hospitals. We also find out what someone...
Human-robot-collaboration w/Søren Peter Johansen from the Danish Technological Institute
January 10, 2020 16:12 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBSøren Peter Johansen from DTI talks about implementing robotics solutions. He talks about how he got into robotics by starting to tinker with any electronics he could get his hands on. He worked in a mechanical workshop and added automation to the machines in the shop. As robots became more and more available, he then included them in his work. Søren also discusses examples of successful human robot collaboration and how software and hardware both are essential elements of robot development...
3D printing metal components w/Hans Kimblad
January 10, 2020 02:12 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHans talks about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing. He describes how the different technologies that are used for MAM work. He then talks through the opportunities and challenges and what one needs to consider when designing for the Höganäs powder sintering MAM process. He also shares some details about the metal powder they use. This podcast was recorded in 2016 and is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative con...
How this robotics entrepreneur makes programming robots easier w/Sven Schmidt-Rohr
January 03, 2020 20:31 - 37 minutes - 34 MBSven talks about how he always wanted to be a robotics entrepreneur and how ArtiMinds makes programming robots easier. Like so many, Sven got interested in robotics early. He found robots exciting as they could make his programs come to life and work outside the computer. They could do so much more than just display graphics on the computer screen. Sven also decided to become a robot entrepreneur early and worked on becoming a robotics entrepreneur from high school and through university w...
How to get benefits from being part of an open source robotics community w/Dirk Thomas
January 01, 2020 15:22 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBDirk talks about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation. We hear about how programmers and roboticists can benefit from being part of and contributing to the open source community. Dirk discusses the development of ROS and how it is being used both in academia and in commercial projects. He also shares his thoughts on the future development of ROS and how it can support advancements in robotics overall. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community prov...
Robot snakes to reach impossible places w/Andrew Graham
December 27, 2019 14:50 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBAndrew Graham is Senior Technical Leader at OC Robotics, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of commercial snake-arm robots and software for confined and hazardous environments Andrew talks about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do things no other system can. Andrew tells the story about starting OC Robotics as a way to ground his robotics development efforts in a customer need. He felt that making something useful gave a great direction to his projects...
Merging robotics and fashion w/Anouk Wipprecht
December 27, 2019 14:39 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBAnouk creates instinctual and behavioral wearables; essentially clothes that can sense, process and react. She creates dresses that move, including motors and special effects. They don´t follow the normal fashion cycle of becoming irrelevant after six months, since they can be updated and improved. Anouk is unusual as a Fashion Designer as she doesn’t do catwalks; since her designs are made to interact with – not just being viewed. She is a big supporter of open source and is contributing...
The next generation of robots w/Paul Ekas
December 10, 2019 21:17 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBThe EZGripper by SAKE Robotics is a tendon based gripper using Dyneema tendons and aluminum oxide eyelets to make it durable and able to handle rough environments. The EZGripper is under-actuated, the fingers stay straight when picking up small objects and wrap around large objects. You can control position and torque allowing you to grip soft or hard objects and to do so gently or firmly. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers ...
How to deal with pattents early on in the innovation process w/Linda Thayer
December 06, 2019 22:22 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBLinda Thayer talks about how to how to apply for, maintain and use patents. She tells us about the benefits of getting in touch with a patent attorney early in the innovation process. She then walks us through the process of applying for a patent, key dates and important steps. We also get to hear about defending your patent and international patents. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovat...
How a succesfull educational robotics system emerged from co-operating with Lego w/David Johan Christensen
November 30, 2019 18:58 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this podcast, David talks about modular robotics and the Fable system. David Johan started early in robotics, getting involved already in high school. At university he found the EU project Hydra, that introduced him to modular robotics. In the Hydra project he participated in developing, among other things, the Atron self-reconfiguring modular robotics system. We also hear how the Fable system emerged from co-operating with Lego and how it’s used all the way from 4th grade to university...
What happens when non-engineer users are tasked with teaching robots new things w/Franziska Kirstein
November 30, 2019 18:50 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBFranziska Kirstein talks about her experience as a linguist working with human robot interaction. We get to hear about what works and what doesn’t when non-engineer users are tasked with teaching robots different movements. Franziska also describes some of the challenges with kinestetic guidance and alternative methods that can be used. She then talks about some of the projects she is involved in, including one in robot assisted health care and one involving social robots. This podcast i...
What termites can teach us about using autonomous swarms of robots w/Justin Werfel
November 22, 2019 17:25 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this podcast, Justin Werfel talks about what termites can teach us about using autonomous swarms of robots. Termites have an amazing ability to create and maintain large, complicated structures with very limited capabilities. Justin talks about the opportunity to learn from the termites capability to create impressive structures and use that to create structures with autonomous swarms of robots. We get to hear about how the Termes project aims to learn from termites and build on their c...
Formal verification of computer systems and autonomous golf carts w/Jana Tumova
November 21, 2019 16:13 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBJana talks about formal verification of computer systems and synthesizing controllers from models. We get an introduction to the relatively new, especially when applied to robotics, field of formal verification. Jana talks about the requirements and limits of formal verification and how she feels we are ready to start merging the computer science process with regulatory and business processes. Jana also describes how she worked on an autonomous golf cart in Singapore where the controller w...
How do we prepare for co-existing with robots & AI w/Aseem Prakash
November 15, 2019 16:19 - 44 minutes - 41 MBIn this podcast, he talks about a future with robots, rather than the future of robotics. Aseem talks about how we can prepare for co-existing with robots & AI. What will the future with robots look like & how can we prepare to maximize the benefit. He also talks about studying how tomorrow unfolds and develop a strategy that will help us adapt to new technologies and how we best integrate them in our lives, private or professional. Aseem then brings up the risk of not preparing, keeping ...
IOT and robotics & the next wave of startups w/Erin Bishop
November 13, 2019 17:42 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBErin Bishop talks about how the FIRST robotics competition was a natural and inspiring way into robotics and onward into her career in robotics. Erin talks to Per about her work in marketing for several startups. They discuss selling points, including examples from different industries, and marketing for launching a robotics product. Erin also shares her insights on telepresence robots from working with Beam and her game plan for starting a new company based on robotics technology. In this...
How a trip to Japan started Robotics Trends & RoboBusiness w/Dan Kara
November 06, 2019 13:09 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThis podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
Welcoming robots into our home and businesses, and how to get there. w/ Daniel Lofaro
October 23, 2019 14:24 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBDaniel Lofaro’s PhD project made its public debut on an unlikely stage. His research in end-effector velocity control of non-planted robots (robotic throwing) enabled his HUBO humanoid robot subject to throw out the first pitch of the 2012 Major League Baseball season in front of 45,186 fans. Daniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, and the director of the laboratory Lofaro Labs Robotics which is apart of the internat...
How to make robotics systems more agile and easily adaptable w/Craig Schlenoff
October 16, 2019 19:45 - 36 minutes - 33 MBCraig Schlenoff is the Group Leader of the Cognition and Collaboration Systems Group and the Acting Group Leader of the Sensing and Perception Systems Group in the Intelligent Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is also the Associate Program Manager of the Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing Program and the Agility Performance of Robotic Systems Project Leader. His research interests include knowledge representation/ontologies, intention recognitio...
How to create autonomous vehicles from scratch (and existing models) w/Mel Torrie
October 16, 2019 13:39 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBMel Torie on LinkedIN ASI website Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
What areas are impacted by robotics in the near future? w/Andra Kaey
October 10, 2019 15:57 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBAndra Kaey on Twitter Silicon Valley Robotics This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
The lessons learned from building 1024 robots w/Michael Rubenstein
October 09, 2019 14:59 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBKilobot project page This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
Investing in consumer focussed robotics w/Valery Komissarova
October 09, 2019 14:46 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBLinkedIn profile. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
The benefits of open source in robotics and how ROS came to be an open standard w/Tully Foote
October 04, 2019 13:56 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBOpen Source Robotics Foundation Tully Foote TurtleBot This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
Air, surface and underwater robots with professor of computer science Gregory Dudek
October 04, 2019 13:26 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBGregory Dudek website Mobile robotics lab This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
The impact of the robot revolution w/roboticist Henrik Christensen
September 27, 2019 08:06 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBHenrik Christensen website. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
From checkers playing robots to robotics and machine vision w/roboticist Peter Corke
September 27, 2019 08:06 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBYou can find Peters book here. On his web site you can also find many useful resources, including the MOOC Robot Academy, his Robotics Toolbox and the Machine Vision Toolbox This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
How looking for an investment opportunity in robotics lead to developing a tracking index for the robotics industry w/Frank Tobe
September 27, 2019 08:06 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBFrank Tobe Linkedin. The Robot report RoboGlobal This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
The next frontier of research by mixing artificial animals with real ones w/professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Spring Berman
September 27, 2019 08:06 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBSpring M. Berman is an associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and graduate faculty in Computer Science and Exploration Systems Design at Arizona State University (ASU). She is also a core faculty affiliate of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at ASU and Associate Director of the Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming (CHART) within GSI. Before joining ASU in 2012, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at Harvard University (2010-...
Rescue robotics with Head of the Collaborative Robotics Lab Richard Voyles
September 27, 2019 08:05 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBProf. Voyles is head of the Collaborative Robotics Lab at Purdue University and Director of the Robotics Accelerator, Prof. Voyles knows robots! With expertise in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science, Dr. Voyles' research interest include novel robotic mechanisms, sensors, self-adaptive software, real-time control, and gesture-based human/robot interaction. His professional experience includes IBM, Avanti Optics, Integrated Systems and Dart Controls, tenured ac...
Learning lessons from working with modular robots w/ Dave Rollinson
September 27, 2019 08:05 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBYou can find out more about Hebi and their products on www.hebirobotics.com This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
Making research quality modular robots accessible to everyone w/founder Daniel Pizzata
September 27, 2019 08:05 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBMore information on https://www.modbot.com This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
How a lifelong robot builder went to running a $94 million VC backed robotics company w/Melonee Wise
September 27, 2019 08:03 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBFetch robotics website. Melonee Wise Linkedin. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
Safer human robot collaboration with a unique safety sensor w/Walter Wohlkinger
September 27, 2019 08:01 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBBlue Danube website. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]
Innovating in modular robotics w/co-founder Andreas Bihlmaier
September 27, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBMore about Robodev. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com