Soft Robotics Podcast

" How We Can Make Robotics Beneficial for Humanity As A Whole?" Very intriguing discussion with Noel Sharkey. Noel is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC Two television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland. He is chair ICRAC and responsible robotics. In part1, we discussed diverse and broad topics of robotics and AI. I hope you would enjoy part 2.

Robert Shepherd: “Embodied energy: How could soft robots perform operations for longer periods in a reliable and untethered way? How to reduce the complexity required for the control system that's operating the robot?”.

" How We Can Make Robotics Beneficial for Humanity As A Whole?" Very intriguing discussion with Noel Sharkey. Noel is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC Two television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland. He is chair ICRAC and responsible robotics. In part1, we discussed diverse and broad topics of robotics and AI. I hope you would enjoy part 1.

Antonio Bicchi's advice for researchers and students "Never get anything for granted! Check out everything that is said. It's not because something has been always said that it is through."

In this episode, we are delighted to have prof. Gursel Alici, the Soft Robotics Theme Leader and a Senior Professor at the University of Wollongong. Prof.Gursel shares with us his profound and rich expertise over twenty years besides reflecting his thoughts about the field. I hope you would find this episode useful.

Josh Bongard "Soft robotics is maybe an unfortunate name for this type of robotics because soft robots are sort of traditional robotics as non-linear dynamics to linear dynamics. Linear dynamics are sort of in a specific case of non-linear dynamics where the non-linearity is its intrinsic identity.

One of the interesting work done by Josh's lab: "deeply- damaged robots to try and recover, they weren't able to recover so much by adapting their control policy and keeping their damaged shape constant. Instead, evolution was better able to find a compensating shape for the robot. In some cases, the damaged robot would grow back the lost limbs and it could carry on moving with its pre-damaged control policy".

A well-thought and an intriguing episode with Dr. Helmut Hauser, a Senior Lecturer in Robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. In this episode, Helmut highlights the latest research and challenges they face besides exposing his thoughts about the field. I hope you would find it useful.

Allison Okamura" It is challenging to have a precise controller, part of the challenge is understanding when you should use controller or sort of embodied intelligence".

An intriguing and insightful discussion with Dr. Helge Wurdemann, Head of the Soft Haptics and Robotics Lab at UCL. In this episode, Dr.Helge highlights interesting applications of soft robotics and the challenges they face, besides reflecting his musing about the field I hope you would enjoy this episode.

An insightful and outspoken episode with Dr. Fumiya Iida, the leader of the bio-inspired robotics lab at Cambridge University, and co-chair of IEEE RAS Soft Robotics TC. In this episode, we discussed different topics besides exposing Fumiya's thoughts about the field. Special thanks to Dr.Fumiya for his sincere support for the podcast.