Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock discusses robot deployment, manufacturing, AI, and product design at Figure’s California headquarters with Brighter with Herbert host and robotics founder Scott Walter.
Baxi Chong, a researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, discusses how mechanical intelligence and redundant robot designs can improve locomotion in noisy, complex terrain, and how to balance that with sensing and control.
Sami Haddadin, a robotics researcher and Franka Emika co-founder, discusses accelerating robot learning and design at an ICRA plenary in Yokohama, with examples from his TUM team’s work.
Astrobotic CEO John Thornton, review board chair John Horack, Mission Director Sharad Basaran, and VP Steve Clark discuss Peregrine Mission One’s failure findings and Astrobotic’s plans for future missions during a telecon with reporters.
Mentee Robotics CEO Prof. Lior Wolf explains the company’s approach to building humanoid robots that combine learned skills, perception, navigation and language based planning.
Rich Walker, director of Shadow Robot Company, describes the company’s new robotic hand at ICRA in Yokohama, including its design, sensing, and repairability.
A Toyota Research Institute researcher describes how TRI and Stanford Engineering developed autonomous tandem drifting and what it may teach engineers about vehicle control and road safety.
John Koetsier hosts Boston Dynamics leaders Marco Da Silva, who runs the Spot business, Alex Perkins, who leads Stretch robotics, and Mike Murphy, a senior systems engineering leader, on NEXT with John Koetsier’s TechFirst podcast about robot design, deployment, and the company’s product plans.
Chef Robotics CEO and founder Rajat Bhageria talks with Nathan Lens on The Cognitive Revolution about building robots and a food manipulation model for commercial kitchens.
Nicolas Simon, founder of Wandercraft, explains how AI-powered exoskeletons can restore mobility at the AI for Good Global Summit 2024, alongside a live demonstration by Charlotte Fairbank.
Tony Yang, sales manager at Unitree Robotics, introduces CEO and CTO Xingxing Wang’s G1 humanoid robot and discusses its design, cost, and intended uses.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, describes how AI is being used inside the company and predicts that robotics will reshape factories; AI Explained host discusses these claims with robotics researcher Jason Ma and IPPR report author Carsten Young.
Saurabh Gupta, a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, presents at the CMU Robotics Institute seminar on using egocentric videos to improve robot learning, with examples from navigation, manipulation, and whole-body motion planning.
Goren Gordon, a social robotics researcher and startup founder, discusses how to build relationships between people and social robots at an Enchanted Tools talk.
CADRE intern Niall McKinnon at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory describes contributing to the CADRE lunar rover technology demonstration alongside fellow students Melissa Chow, Natalie Deo, Minsoo Kang, Kai Muhammad, and Janelle Tran.
Kevin Dowling, managing director of Robotics Factory in Pittsburgh and a former Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute scientist, talks with John Gater about robotics and automation in agriculture.
Dieter Fox, professor at the University of Washington and robotics research lead at NVIDIA, discusses where robotics stands relative to generative AI and how simulation could help train more capable robots, during a CMU Robotics Institute seminar.
A main speaker from RealMan Robotics discusses using robotic arms to automate crop handling and harvesting in greenhouse operations in Switzerland, alongside Floating Robotics.
MIT professor and Toyota Research Institute vice president Russ Tedrake explains how graphs of convex sets can combine trajectory optimization and discrete search for robot planning at the MIT Robotics Seminar.
Eric Jang, AI team lead at 1X Technologies, describes the company’s humanoid robots and data engine at the Spring 2024 GRASP SFI event hosted by GRASP Lab.
Brett Adcock, founder and CEO of Figure AI, talks with the No Priors hosts about the case for humanoid robots, Figure’s path to commercial use, and the technical and business challenges involved.
Martin Humenberger of NAVER LABS Europe explains how the company connects AI research with real-world robotics, from robot-operated buildings to models for vision, optimization, and interaction.
Laure Soulier, an NLP researcher at NAVER LABS Europe working with the Pillar Robots project, surveys how language models can help robots understand scenes, plan actions, and adapt to new tasks.
Cordelia Schmid, research director at Inria and a researcher at Google Research, discusses transformer methods for language-guided robot navigation and manipulation at NAVER LABS Europe.
Liyiming Ke, a PhD student at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School, discusses building robots for precise manipulation with Siddhartha Srinivasa and the Robotics Colloquium audience.
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