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Robots Podcast #168: Nylon fishing line actuator, with Geoff Spinks
Link to audio file (18:34) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Geoffrey Spink from Wollogong University about his team’s work on artificial muscles. Professor Spink’s Australian led...
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Robots Podcast #171: Robotics in theatre, film and television, with Grant...
Link to audio file (29:26). NEW: Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mythbusters‘ Grant Imahara, and Richard McKenna from The Creature Technology Company about robotics in the...
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Robots Podcast #173: RoboThespian, with Will Jackson
Link to audio file (29:34) – Transcript below In today’s podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Will Jackson from Engineered Arts Limited about his team’s work making robot actors. Engineered Arts was...
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Robots Podcast #180: Soft Robotics Toolkit, with Donal Holland
image: Soft Robotics Toolkit Link to audio file (16:53). Transcript below. In this podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks to Donal Holland of Harvard University about his team’s work on the Soft Robotics...
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Robots Podcast #185: Rehabilitation and Environmental monitoring, with Lei Cui
Link to audio file (23:37). Transcript included. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Lei Cui from Curtin University about his team’s work on 3D printable hand orthosis for rehabilitation,...
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Robots Podcast #189: Robots and Communication, with Eleanor Sandry
Link to audio file (34:28). Transcript included. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Eleanor Sandry of Curtin University about her new book Robots and Communication. In the interview, we...
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Robots Podcast #193: The Open Academic Robot Kit, with Raymond Sheh
Link to audio file (17:55). Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Raymond Sheh, who is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing at Curtin University and head of the...
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Robots Podcast #141: FutureDairy, with Kendra Kerrisk
Link to audio file (38:51) FutureDairy is an R&D development program to help Australian dairy farmers manage the challenges they are likely to face during the next 20 years. In this episode, Ron...
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Robots Podcast #143: From the greenhouse to the fields, with David Dorhout
Link to audio file (27:16) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with David Dorhout from Iowa State University about his Agricultural Robots that include Prospero the robot farmer and Aquarius the...
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Robots Podcast #155: Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke
Link to audio file (27:19) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting,...
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Robots Podcast #156: RoboRoach, with Bill Reith and Oliver Bendel
Link to audio file (38:39) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Bill Reith, an engineer at Backyard Brains. The company develops RoboRoach, the world’s first commercially available “cyborg”,...
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Robots Podcast #159: Computer-assisted surgery, with Karol Miller
Link to audio file (23:08) In this episode Ron Vanderkley speaks to Prof. Karol Miller, Director of the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab at the University of Western Australia, about medical...
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Robots Podcast #173: RoboThespian, with Will Jackson
Link to audio file (29:34) – Transcript below In today’s podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Will Jackson from Engineered Arts Limited about his team’s work making robot actors. Engineered Arts was...
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Robots Podcast #217: LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen “Juxi” Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner speaks...
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Robots Podcast #226: Toru robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They...
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Robots Podcast #196: Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams
Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...
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Robots Podcast #205: Hadrian Bricklaying Robot, with Mark Pivac
Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mark Pivoc from FastBrick about Hadrian the bricklaying robot. Fastbrick is an Australian robotics firm aiming to disrupt the local...
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#141: FutureDairy, with Kendra Kerrisk
Link to audio file (38:51) FutureDairy is an R&D development program to help Australian dairy farmers manage the challenges they are likely to face during the next 20 years. In this episode, Ron...
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#143: From the Greenhouse to the Fields, with David Dorhout
Link to audio file (27:16) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with David Dorhout from Iowa State University about his Agricultural Robots that include Prospero the robot farmer and Aquarius the...
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#155: Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and...
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