Robohub Podcast
Summary: Robots is the podcast for news, interviews and discussions on all aspects of robotics. In addition to insights from high-profile professionals, Robots will take you for a ride through the world's research labs, robotics companies and their latest innovations.
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Podcasts:
Robots: Controlled Flight of Insect-sized Robots
#129: Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller
Link to audio file (33:23) In this episode, Per talks to Pericle Salvini from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna about his work with social, ethical and legal issues in robotics. He tells us about the Robolaw project that will provide advice to the European Union when it creates laws concerning robotics. Finally, we discuss how you can contribute to this important work.
Robots: Ethical, Social and Legal Issues
#128: Ethical, social and legal issues, with Pericle Salvini
Link to audio file (31:43) In this episode we hear how the Spanish robotic startup Adele is creating a marketplace for robotics software. Through their platform, robot developers can buy software components for their robots, and software developers can sell their code, in a practical way. Examples of the software components, Adele calls them sparks, are speech recognition, synthetic speech, vision systems and user interface components. Their flagship project FIONA (Framework for Interactive-services Over Natural-conversational Agents) allows users to create intelligent and interactive virtual avatars.
Robots: Software Marketplace
#127: Software marketplace, with Celestino Alvarez Martinez and Lucia Fernandez Cossio
Link to audio file (50:26) In this episode we hear from Professor Gurvinder Virk from the University of Gävl about how international standards are created in the ISO. He also tells us why he thinks they are essential for robotics and how you can participate and contribute.
Robots: International Standards
#126: International standards, with Gurvinder Virk
Link to audio file (22:47) In this episode, we talk with Kate Darling from the MIT Media Lab, about giving rights to social robots. She tells us about a recent Pleo torture session she organized at the LIFT conference and the class she taught at Harvard Law School on “Robot Rights”.
Robots: Giving Rights to Robots
#125: Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling
Robots: Insect-inspired Navigation
