Soft Robotics Podcast

“What is the Living robots” Which level of understanding is required for AI algorithms to predict the best structure of these robots, how they communicate with each other to make emergent behavior “swarm” #Xenobot. Very thoughtful and intriguing discussion with Michael Levin, a professor in the Biology department at Tufts, director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Prof.Levin spoke about living robots, modeling aspects, morphological computation, limitations, challenges, and more interesting points.

Special Thanks to Victoria Edwards, the chair of Inclusion RSS 2020 "Announcement voice over"

What do kids think about Soft(Robotics)? I am impressed and proud by the amazing Artash and Arushi,

The Winners: NASA SpaceApps 2019/2018/2017/2014.

Artash and Arushi spoke about their projects, ideas, how the education system is supposed to be, their goals, advices. I think we must listen to the younger generation and their thoughts because sometimes they are more aware than us. I hope you enjoy the episode.

Very interesting and thoughtful discourse with Dr.Rahim Mutlu, Lecturer at Wollongong University, associate investigator at ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials. Dr.Rahim stressed the importance of design and modeling of understanding smart soft materials behavior and more interesting points highlighted in the episode. I hope you enjoy the episode.

In this episode, we are pleased to have to prof. Mark Rentschler, The head of, advanced Medical Technologies Laboratory at the University of Colorado, and Co-founder & CTO at Aspero Medical. Prof.Mark spokes about the role of soft robotics in surgical robotics and how AI could contribute to soft robotics morphological computation. I hope you would enjoy the episode.

Very thoughtful and interesting discussion with Prof.Guang-Zhong Yang, the co-founder and former director of Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery and former chairman of the UK-RAS Network. Prof.Guang shares with us his profound vision and thoughts about the field.

Alin Albu-Schäffer, the head of the mechatronics and robotics at German Aerospace Centre DLR speaks about their research and challenges to solve, I hope you enjoy it.

Very interesting episode with Stefano Mintchev, the co-Founder and CTO at Foldaway haptics a spin-off-EPFL, Foldaway-haptics developed origami-inspired robots to Mercedes-Benz for their VISION AVTR concept car. We spoke about the challenges they face to bring the product to markets, the on-going upgrades for fold way-haptics and robotics, I hope you enjoy.

It such an honor to have prof. George Whitesides, Founding Core Faculty

Wyss Institute at Harvard University, bright minds came out from him like “Robert Sheperd, AdamStokes, Conor Walsh”. He also co-founder of SoftRoboticsInc. Prof.Whitesides shared with us his very rich experience in soft robotics, I was amazed at how wisdom, intelligence, and simplicity he has. I hope you would enjoy this episode.

Dr. James KellTechnologist - In-Situ Repair at Rolls-Royce speaks about Rolls Royce Nano Robot Bugs and Snakes to Repair Jet Engine. In this episode, he highlighted the challenges and the expectations behind this project.

Thoughtful and interesting discussion with Prof.Tommaso Ranzani, the head of Morphable Biorobotics, Boston University. His work on fabricating novel reconfigurable soft-bodied across different scales is highlighted (more in the episode). His research focuses on exploring different technologies and developing manufacturing paradigms to design and fabricate innovative robotic systems. His main research area is soft robotics. He has explored soft robotic technologies to develop novel manipulators, which integrate design principles from biological systems to perform advanced procedures in minimally invasive surgery (MIS).