Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> The machines are coming! Meet the prototypes of your future robot buddies and discover how you may come to love a hunk of hardware. From telerobots that are your mechanical avatars … to automated systems for the disabled … and artificial hands that can diffuse bombs. </p> <p>Plus, the ethics of advanced robotics: should life-or-death decisions be automated?</p> <p>And, a biologist uses robo-fish to understand evolution.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/">Illah Nourbakhsh</a></strong> – Professor of robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262018624/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0262018624">Robot Futures</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0262018624" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i>. Check out his <a href="http://robotfutures.posterous.com/%20">Robot Futures</a> blog.</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://9thsense.com/about-us/">Marco Mascorro</a></strong> – Vice President of Hardware, 9<sup>th</sup> Sense Robotics, Mountain View, California</li> <li> <strong>Curt Salisbury</strong> – Mechanical engineer, senior member, technical staff, <a href="http://www.sandia.gov/">Sandia National Laboratories</a> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://abm.wso.net/demo/index.html">Joe Karnicky</a></strong> – Retired engineer, Menlo Park, California. Videos of his gadgetry can be found at the bottom of <a href="http://abm.wso.net/demo/wheelchairs/index.html">this page</a>.</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://faculty.vassar.edu/jolong/people.html">John Long</a></strong> – Professor of biology and cognitive science at Vassar College and the author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ANY8N0W/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ANY8N0W">Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00ANY8N0W" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-instituto-seti-nos-encantan-los-robots/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released January 21, 2013</p>
