Soft Robotics Podcast

Hod Lipson “The First Robot I Built “An Evolve Robot Design Another Robot?”

Interesting 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 listening to the episode.

Enjoyable 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

Thoughtful and enjoyable discourse with Herbert Shea, the head of LMTS: Soft Transducers Lab at EPFL. What are wishlist parameters and trade-offs for designing dielectric elastomers? What does it take artificial tentacles to solve a Rubik's cube? The challenge of designing convincing haptic illusion and linking human perception and actuation? Is it possible to design a low-power dielectric elastomer? The possibilities of active actuators vs pneumatic in the food industry.

"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

Interesting 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_46hopo&feature=youtu.be

Intriguing 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://brainsciencepodcast.com/

Thoughtful 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”

Douglas Blackiston “The Beak of the Finch, Be Creative, Broaden Your Perspective Beyond What You Learned”