Soft Robotics Podcast

Brian Ringley Clip "What Is Missing For Spot Boston Dynamics And Should Applied In The Next Generation?"

Brian Ringley "Spot Boston Dynamics Challenges And Limitations in Construction Site"

Bio:

Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs MIT Connection Science, an MIT-wide initiative, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was central in forging the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.

The 3rd Soft Robotics Debate on Bioinspiration vs Biohybrid Design Mon 15 Feb10 am- 12 pm EST. You can join here: https://ieee.webex.com/mw3300/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=ieee&service=6&rnd=0.887343586995486&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fieee.webex.com%2Fec3300%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26%26%26EMK%3D4832534b0000000452ba2b6bc49ab9cd1d2f0102a0e3898d363749bce27c2f709d46b493ca920157%26siteurl%3Dieee%26confViewID%3D185058753710700244%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAARJYeBM7NuUyUWSlXKII72wwguh-sBwoLCdeIgMsnb4bQ2%26

You can send your questions here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5bc36d26ce95422ba8c0135cabad490d

The debate topic:

Bioinspiration, the development of novel materials and structures inspired by biological systems and evolution, has been the essence and main claim of Soft Robotics research. Yet, soft robots are nowhere close to mimicking the life cycle of biological creatures, i.e. growth, adaptation, morphogenesis, and returning to their starting state. Going beyond smart materials, biohybrids may be the solution to multifunctionality and biocompatibility. In this debate, we will bring together experts in Bioinspiration and Biohybrid design to discuss the necessary steps to make more competent soft robots. We will try to answer whether bioinspired research should focus more on developing new bioinspired material and structures or on the integration of living and artificial structures in biohybrid designs.

Panellists:

Prof. Cecilia Laschi

Prof. Metin Sitti

Dr. Ritu Raman

Dr. Talia Moore

Moderator:

Dr. Sam Kriegman

We hope you enjoy it :)

For the ROS-heads:

The Spot SDK by Boston Dynamics is a set of gRPC APIs and Python client libraries. https://dev.bostondynamics.com/

Other companies offer ROS wrappers of a subset of Boston Dynamics Spot API protocols, such as Clearpath and Microsoft.

https://github.com/microsoft/spot-ros-wrapper

https://clearpathrobotics.com/spot-robot/

Bio:

Jonathan Berte is the founder and CEO of Robovision, a Belgian company that specializes in industrializing deep learning. Berte and his team of machine learning experts have developed a fully scalable platform for the deployment of advanced artificial intelligence (AI). Robovision is applied in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, healthcare, security and agriculture. With this AI Vision platform, Robovision wants to open up the human-machine revolution to companies looking to lead.

Clip: John Leonard “Am I Lost Or The World Change? SLAM Unsolvable Dilemma & Answering Audience Questions”

Clip: John Leonard “Emergent Behavior Story: When Robots Do Something You Didn't Expect?”

Clip: John Leonard “How We Can Reduce The Insane Cost of Robots And Yet Still Robust?”

Clip: John Leonard “Rodney Brooks’ Thoughts on Embodied Intelligence In Robots”