Wevolver Robots in Depth

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How to deal with pattents early on in the innovation process w/Linda Thayer Dec 06, 2019

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Linda Thayer talks about how to how to apply for, maintain and use patents. She tells us about the benefits of getting in touch with a patent attorney early in the innovation process. She then walks us through the process of applying for a patent, key dates and important steps. We also get to hear about defending your patent and international patents.

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How a succesfull educational robotics system emerged from co-operating with Lego w/David Johan Christensen Nov 30, 2019

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In this podcast, David talks about modular robotics and the Fable system.

David Johan started early in robotics, getting involved already in high school. At university he found the EU project Hydra, that introduced him to modular robotics. In the Hydra project he participated in developing, among other things, the Atron self-reconfiguring modular robotics system.

We also hear how the Fable system emerged from co-operating with Lego and how it’s used all the way from 4th grade to university level brain research.

You can find out more on www.shaperobotics.com

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What happens when non-engineer users are tasked with teaching robots new things w/Franziska Kirstein Nov 30, 2019

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Franziska Kirstein talks about her experience as a linguist working with human robot interaction.

We get to hear about what works and what doesn’t when non-engineer users are tasked with teaching robots different movements.

Franziska also describes some of the challenges with kinestetic guidance and alternative methods that can be used.

She then talks about some of the projects she is involved in, including one in robot assisted health care and one involving social robots.

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What termites can teach us about using autonomous swarms of robots w/Justin Werfel Nov 22, 2019

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In this podcast, Justin Werfel talks about what termites can teach us about using autonomous swarms of robots.

Termites have an amazing ability to create and maintain large, complicated structures with very limited capabilities.

Justin talks about the opportunity to learn from the termites capability to create impressive structures and use that to create structures with autonomous swarms of robots. We get to hear about how the Termes project aims to learn from termites and build on their capabilities to create any desired structure.

We also hear how Justin was drawn to robotics by the balance between theoretical and practical work.

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Formal verification of computer systems and autonomous golf carts w/Jana Tumova Nov 21, 2019

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Jana talks about formal verification of computer systems and synthesizing controllers from models.

We get an introduction to the relatively new, especially when applied to robotics, field of formal verification. Jana talks about the requirements and limits of formal verification and how she feels we are ready to start merging the computer science process with regulatory and business processes.

Jana also describes how she worked on an autonomous golf cart in Singapore where the controller was synthesized.

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How do we prepare for co-existing with robots & AI w/Aseem Prakash Nov 15, 2019

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In this podcast, he talks about a future with robots, rather than the future of robotics.

Aseem talks about how we can prepare for co-existing with robots & AI. What will the future with robots look like & how can we prepare to maximize the benefit.

He also talks about studying how tomorrow unfolds and develop a strategy that will help us adapt to new technologies and how we best integrate them in our lives, private or professional.

Aseem then brings up the risk of not preparing, keeping up to date with what is happening and thinking about how these developments will affect your business or organization.

He ask the question, when we co-exist with 5-10 or even hundreds of robots and smart systems, what will that look like? A very important question that everyone needs to answer for themselves privately as well as in their business, and that we as a society have to answer collectively.

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IOT and robotics & the next wave of startups w/Erin Bishop Nov 13, 2019

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Erin Bishop talks about how the FIRST robotics competition was a natural and inspiring way into robotics and onward into her career in robotics.

Erin talks to Per about her work in marketing for several startups. They discuss selling points, including examples from different industries, and marketing for launching a robotics product. Erin also shares her insights on telepresence robots from working with Beam and her game plan for starting a new company based on robotics technology.

In this interview, we get Erin’s perspective on IOT and robotics being the next wave of startups and that venture capital is adapting to the difference between web and app investments on one hand and hardware and IOT/robotics on the other.

Erin thinks that robotics will be introduced in specific verticals and that the service industry will be early adopters. We also find out about how the robot loving customer is her biggest problem.

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How a trip to Japan started Robotics Trends & RoboBusiness w/Dan Kara Nov 06, 2019

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Welcoming robots into our home and businesses, and how to get there. w/ Daniel Lofaro Oct 23, 2019

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Daniel Lofaro’s PhD project made its public debut on an unlikely stage. His research in end-effector velocity control of non-planted robots (robotic throwing) enabled his HUBO humanoid robot subject to throw out the first pitch of the 2012 Major League Baseball season in front of 45,186 fans.

Daniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, and the director of the laboratory Lofaro Labs Robotics which is apart of the international laboratory group called the DASL Autonomous Systems Lab Group (DASL Group).

Additionally, he's a affiliate faculty at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) within the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). As a NSF-EAPSI and ONR-SFRP Fellow, he received his doctorate from the ECE Department at Drexel University in 2013 under the guidance of Dr. Paul Oh. He was the Research Lead of the DARPA Robotics Challenge team DRC-Hubo from 2012 to 2014.

Host: Per Sjöborg, Robots in Depth is supported by Aptomica.

His research focus is in the overarching field of real-world robotics. Within this his research interests include Swarm Robotics, Emergent Behaviors, Robot Design, Real-World Human/Robot Interaction, Humanoid Robotics, Complex Control Systems, Secure Robotics, Cloud Robotics, Unique Musical Instrument Design, and Real-Time Systems. Research interests include Complex Control Systems and Robotics with most recent ventures relating to Robot Design and Cloud Robotics. Daniel's dissertation title is Unified Algorithmic Framework for High Degree of Freedom Complex Systems and Humanoid Robots.

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How to make robotics systems more agile and easily adaptable w/Craig Schlenoff Oct 16, 2019

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Craig Schlenoff is the Group Leader of the Cognition and Collaboration Systems Group and the Acting Group Leader of the Sensing and Perception Systems Group in the Intelligent Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is also the Associate Program Manager of the Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing Program and the Agility Performance of Robotic Systems Project Leader.

His research interests include knowledge representation/ontologies, intention recognition, and performance evaluation techniques applied to manufacturing robotic systems. He has led multiple million-dollar projects, dealing with performance evaluation of advanced military technologies and agility performance of manufacturing robotic systems. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers, guest edited three journals, and written two book chapters.

He is currently the chair of the IEEE Ontology for Robotics and Automation Working Group and has previously served as the program manager for the Process Engineering Program at NIST and the Director of Ontologies at VerticalNet. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Maryland and a Masters degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, both in mechanical engineering, and a PhD from the University of Burgundy, France in computer science.