Giving robots the sense of touch - interview with Anuradha Ranasinghe
Anuradha Ranasinghe, a robotics researcher at Liverpool Hope University, discusses tactile sensing and feedback for robots with Robot Talk host Claire Asher.
1054 talks, interviews and lectures on humanoid robots, each summarised with its key moments, so you can read the gist and jump to the part you need.
Anuradha Ranasinghe, a robotics researcher at Liverpool Hope University, discusses tactile sensing and feedback for robots with Robot Talk host Claire Asher.
Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, CEO and founder of Psyonic, discusses bionic hands for prosthetic users and robots with Jeff Rick at Humanoid Summit 2024.
Jerome Monceaux, co-founder and CEO of Enchanted Tools, discusses designing social, character-driven robots with Jeff at the Humanoids Summit 2024 in Mountain View.
Francesco Ferro, CEO of PAL Robotics, joins host Edgar Guerrero in Barcelona to discuss service robots, their uses in industry and care, and what it will take to bring them into daily life.
Katsu Ikeuchi, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, presents his team’s approach to learning robot tasks from human demonstrations at the UW Robotics Colloquium, hosted by Dieter Fox.
Jenny Read, program director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), tells Audrow Nash about a roughly £50 million program to advance robot dexterity hardware and the organizations working on it.
Peter Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE and co-founder of Singularity University, discusses humanoid robots with John Koetsier on NEXT, which Koetsier introduces as TechFirst.
Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Realbotix, discusses humanoid robots as companions as well as workers with John Koetsier on NEXT, alongside Aria, Realbotix’s AI-integrated robot.
Synthia, a humanoid robot made by Norwegian company Syntheva, introduces her proposed home use, features, and upcoming pre-orders in a video on the Syntheva channel.
Ishan Durugkar, a research scientist at Sony AI, describes developing and deploying Gran Turismo racing agents at the Paul G. Allen School Robotics Colloquium, introduced by Abhishek Gupta.
Yashraj Narang of NVIDIA presents the company’s sim-to-real work on contact-rich robotic assembly at the Paul G. Allen School’s 2024 Fall Robotics Colloquium, introduced by Abhishek Gupta.
An MIT CSAIL researcher discusses PROGRESS, a system that combines language models with constraint checking to help robots complete open-ended manipulation tasks safely.
Alex F., manager at PAL Robotics, discusses RFID and the StockBot inventory robot with host Diana Sonato, Decathlon senior product manager Celia, and SML Intelligent Inventory Solutions president Dean F.
At the CoRL 2024 industry panel, robotics leaders from Google DeepMind, Toyota Research Institute, NVIDIA, and Physical Intelligence discuss research priorities, routes to deployment, and the future of robotics.
Wei of Tsinghua University, Ren of Renmin University of China, Wen, Jad, Priya, Joey of Remix, and UC Berkeley professor Jitendra Malik present CoRL 2024 research on robot learning, manipulation, and perception during the Conference on Robot Learning oral session.
Conference of Robot Learning keynote speakers and audience members discuss scaling, priors, robot hardware, evaluation, and what it would mean to solve robotics at CoRL 2024.
Vikash, MyoLab co-founder and Carnegie Mellon adjunct professor, presents an early-career keynote at CoRL 2024 on robust robot learning, data augmentation, and universal agents.
Computer vision researcher Cordelia Schmid presents her work on multimodal video understanding and vision-language-guided robotics at CoRL 2024.
Jay, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, presents his perspective on robot generalization and foundation models at CoRL 2024 in a session chaired by Andrea Bicchi and Shaoan Wang.
Mustafa M. M., a staff research scientist at FAIR who leads a manipulation and tactile sensing team, presents Meta’s robotics and touch perception work at CoRL 2024.
Professor Danfei Xu of Georgia Tech gives the Conference on Robot Learning early career keynote on learning robot skills from embodied human data.
Elaine Short, assistant professor at Tufts University, discusses human-centered AI for robotics, human-robot interaction, and accessibility at the Paul G. Allen School Robotics Colloquium.
An MIT CSAIL researcher explains how LucidSim uses generative models to train legged robots with realistic visual data, from parkour to longer tasks.
Manav Kulshrestha, a third-year computer science PhD student at Purdue University and IDEAS Lab member, discusses interpretable robot learning, rearrangement planning, and multi-agent control at the Paul G. Allen School robotics colloquium, introduced by Lillian Ratliff.
Rong Xiong, a robotics researcher at Zhejiang University, discusses how to combine data-driven AI with mechanism-based robotics, drawing on work from his group at IROS.
Adam Jacoff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discusses reproducible tests for disaster-response robots alongside Tom Haus, a retired Los Angeles Fire Department member, and their work with international robotics competitions.
Gerhard Neumann, professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, explains how to improve world models for robot control, presenting three research directions at the BMVA event.
Jitendra Malik, professor at UC Berkeley and researcher at Meta, discusses robot learning inspired by child development at a Paul G. Allen School talk hosted by Steven Seitz.
PAL Robotics CEO Francesco and technical director Luca Marchionni show host Wyoming their robots at the company’s Barcelona site, discussing public-facing assistance, mobile manipulation and humanoid research.
Ching-An Cheng, senior researcher at MSR AI Frontiers, presents Trace, a framework for optimizing AI agents from rich feedback, at the University of Washington Robotics Colloquium hosted by Abhishek Gupta.
Grace Brown, founder of Andromeda Robotics, and Manny Thu, chief commercial officer, discuss Abi’s development and potential roles in care with Dr. Louise Masara on NSW Health’s Future Health Podcast.
Milton Guerry, president of SCHUNK USA and an A3 board member, discusses robotics’ evolution, AI, workforce education, and industry leadership with host Jay at A3.
Kiana Ehsani, a robotics researcher at AI2, presents her team’s work on robot learning and multimodal models at the Paul G. Allen School robotics colloquium, introduced by Abhishek Gupta.
Guanya Shi, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, presents his research on building agile, generalist robots at the RI seminar.
Erdem Biyik, assistant professor in computer science and electrical and computer engineering at USC, presents research on efficient robot learning from human feedback at the Paul G. Allen School Fall 2024 Robotics Colloquium, hosted by Abhishek Gupta.
Pierre Rouanet, co-founder and CTO of Pollen Robotics, and Elsa Kervella, the company’s marketing and sales lead, discuss Reachy’s manipulation, design and development at Pollen Robotics.
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