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Robot Talk Episode 151 – Robots to study the ocean, with Simona Aracri

Claire chatted to Simona Aracri from National Research Council of Italy about innovative robot designs for oceanography and environmental monitoring. Simona Aracri is a researcher in the Institute of ...
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Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

MIT researchers utilized specially trained generative AI models to create a system that can complete the shape of hidden 3D ...
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Resource-constrained image generation and visual understanding: an interview with Aniket Roy

In the latest in our series of interviews meeting the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants, we caught up with Aniket ...
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Back to school: robots learn from factory workers

Mejdrechová, a mechanical engineer trained at the Czech Technical University in Prague, developed the core technology behind ...
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Robot Talk Episode 149 – Robot safety and security, with Krystal Mattich

Claire chatted to Krystal Mattich from Brain Corp about trustworthy autonomous robots in public spaces. Krystal Mattich leads global data governance, system security, and privacy compliance for Brain ...
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Robot Talk Episode 148 – Ethical robot behaviour, with Alan Winfield

Claire chatted to Alan Winfield from the University of the West of England about developing new standards for ethics and transparency in robotics. Alan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the ...
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Restoring surgeons’ sense of touch with robotic fingertips

Modern surgery has gone from long incisions to tiny cuts guided by robots and AI. In the process, however, surgeons have lost something vital: the chance to feel inside the body directly. Without ...
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Robot Talk Episode 147 – Miniature living robots, with Maria Guix

Claire chatted to Maria Guix from the University of Barcelona about combining electronics and biology to create biohybrid robots with emergent properties. Maria Guix is a chemist and nanotechnology ...
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Robot Talk Episode 146 – Embodied AI on the ISS, with Jamie Palmer

Claire chatted to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit. Jamie Palmer is co-founder and CTO of Icarus Robotics. He earned ...
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Translating music into light and motion with robots

Image taken from the YouTube video created by the authors (see below). A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo lets people collaborate with groups of robots to create works of ...
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Robot Talk Episode 143 – Robots for children, with Elmira Yadollahi

Claire chatted to Elmira Yadollahi from Lancaster University about how children interact with and relate to robots. Elmira Yadollahi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Lancaster ...
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Robot Talk Episode 142 – Collaborative robot arms, with Mark Gray

Claire chatted to Mark Gray from Universal Robots about their lightweight robotic arms that work alongside humans. Mark Gray has worked in automation for the last 30 years, first involved in machine ...