Michael Laskey on training robots to fold bedsheets (and other things) through imitation learning.
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#257: Learning Robot Objectives from Physical Human Interaction, with Andrea
Bajcsy and Dylan P. Losey
March 31, 2018
Andrea Bajcsy and Dylan Losey on a method for teaching robots through physical interaction.
Maja Matarić on robots with the ability to help people through individual non- contact assistance in convalescence, rehabilitation, training, and education.
Monica Daley on how birds run and what lessons we can apply to legged robots.
Peter Harris discusses the use of collaborative robots to facilitate drug discovery.
Karl Weaver on wireless technology in China.
Zhe discusses the development of hardware platforms for incorporating SLAM for mobile robots.
Elliott Rouse on the design and software interface of an open source prosthetic leg.
Helen Huang on improving a users experience with a prosthetic through online learning of control parameters
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#249: ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao
Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn
Dec. 10, 2017
Robots for education, painting tall buildings, machining large parts, and environmental monitoring.
Peter Adamczyk on shiftable shapes, controllable keels, and alignable ankles.
Marco Hutter on design and control of a quadrupedal robot.
Vijay Kumar on designing smart swarms of micro air vehicles.
Chris Gerdes on an autonomous race car and an autonomous drifting Delorean.
Ayanna Howard on how robots can be used to “gamify” pediatric therapy.
Katsu Yamane on robot design at Disney, a robot simulator used by Disney's animators, and becoming an “Imagineer.”
Leon Kuperman on cybersecurity threats and how to guard against them.
Kostas Bekris introduces tensegrity robots, and research into smart control algorithms for them.
A wrist-veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for smart devices.
Peter Corke on free, online courses in robotics and computer vision.