Soft Robotics Podcast

“ On trust and Bias in Robots” Profound discussion with Ayanna Howard, the director of the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab. Can robots be fairer than human beings? How can we be intellectually inclusive while designing robots? What are the main important factors that make robots trustworthy? How can we overcome the challenge of physical simulation with humans? The trade-off between models and data, do we go further step ahead of a black-box model?

compelling and inspiring discourse with Kenneth Stanley "How we can reach Open-endedness AI & Why greatness cannot be planned" with Kenneth Stanley, Open-endedness Group Leader at OpenAI, a former associate professor at the University of Central Florida. In this episode we discuss many interesting questions from the machine learning community, how to have inclusive competitive ideas, can we find something new beyond academia, and more deep thoughts by Kenneth, I think it would be inspiring for many people out there. I hope you enjoy the episode.

"Fighting the prejudice on being a woman" Ruzena shares her experience when she started at The GRASP Lab, how she overcame the constant prejudice. Honestly, we still have this prejudice and what is worse woman hate woman

Clip: John McCarthy Legacy As A Supervisor. John McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, Ruzena remembers how he was a supervisor and what was his legacy?

Clip: On Publish And/Or Perish, What are The Alternatives?

Ruzena Bajcsy is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, she was the founding Director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. In the episode, Ruzena shares her story of being a woman in the robotics community and academia politics. Ruzena’s story is inspiring for many girls who struggle to fulfill their goals in hard conditions. Besides, sharing her experience with John McCarthy as her Ph.D. supervisor.

I hope you will enjoy this episode.

Tom Williams, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines,

wrote an open letter from the robotics team alongside his colleagues expressing their concern about the militarization of local legislation

Regulation, and the increased robotic technology acquisition.

We discussed morals alignment with developed research and

what are the petition 's expectations and recommendations? I hope you find this episode useful.

The petition:https://nojusticenorobots.github.io/

"Funding Long-Sighted Deliverables Would Lead to Beneficial Soft Robotics To The Humanity" Having short term deliverables would restrict your imagination. Long-sighted deliverables over three decades would allow young researchers having a long-term vision

"Perseverance In The Face of Failure" you can have many shots in your life as much as you can. I cannot agree with this wise advice from Prof.Jonathan Rossiter. You will learn the hard way that perseverance is the most important shield against life drags.

Can we have bio-degradable and sensible soft robotics? Profound and interesting discussion with Jonathan Rossiter, the head of the Soft Robotics Group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Jonathan shares important aspects of the main challenges of soft robotics, and fostering long-term funding would lead to a focus on reliable and creative solutions. I hope you would enjoy this episode.