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What counts as a robot? This hour, a look at what robots are and the latest in robot technology. Plus, how robots were used and thought about in medieval times and Ancient Greece and the role of robots in science fiction. GUESTS: Chris Atkeson: Professor at the Robotics Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Adrienne Mayor: Author of Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, among other books Elly Truitt: Author of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art Daniel H. Wilson: Author of Robopocalypse and How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion, among other books The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired July 12, 2022.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the summer PennDOT opened to the public a comment period on the Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs) guidelines. The HAV advisory Committee was created in 2018 to advise and consult the Secretary of Transportation on each aspect of highly automated vehicles. Derrick Herrmann, Chief of Transformational Technology at PennDOT, and Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University joined The Spark, to share more about research about the HAV and driverless vehiclesSupport WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Carmel Majidi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. There, he also holds courtesy appointments in the Robotics Institute and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In Carmel's soft machines lab, they are engineering new types of materials that can be used to make machines and robots soft, flexible, and more lifelike. The goal is for these machines to move more like natural organisms. When not working, Carmel is often out engaging in physical activities including hitting the gym or walking/jogging in nearby parks and along river trails. He also enjoys the arts and travel. Carmel travels frequently for work, and he likes to block off extra time on these trips to visit museums and cultural landmarks. Carmel received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University as well as at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Over the course of his career, Carmel has received numerous awards and honors, including the Young Faculty Awards from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He has also received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Early Career Faculty Award, as well as the George Tallman Ladd Award and Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Early Career Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, Carmel was named a PopTech Science Fellow in 2013. In our interview Carmel discusses his experiences in life and science.

Professor Simon Lucey is the Director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide and an 'Arrow,' someone who has moved to Adelaide to live and work. Originally from Queensland, Simon has spent time working as the Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO in Brisbane and as an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, USA. In October 2020, he was lured to Adelaide to set up the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Australia's first facility dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, computer vision, deep learning and innovation. We chat to Simon about his career to date, his work developing technology for self-driving cars and the opportunity for Adelaide to be a global leader in AI. We also find out what he loves about living in Adelaide, his typical Saturday routine and his favourite Adelaide restaurants, events and regional getaway destinations.

The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Pathways Fellowship is an immersive program crafted to empower entrepreneurs within the domains of robotics, manufacturing, and automation. Scheduled to run from August 19, 2024, to May 15, 2025, The Pathways Fellowship blends essential components- including financial support, academic opportunities from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), mentorship, and off campus supplemental opportunities- to ensure aspiring founders have the skills and supports needed to succeed. This program was created to elevate marginalized entrepreneurs within robotics, and it encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) individuals and women to apply. Pathways Fellowship Director Corey Turner gives us an overview of the program and a behind-the-scenes look at the first group of fellows. Learn more at: https://roboticsfellowship.com/.

One of the things that's on the verge of excitement and annoyance for me is the way that Artificial Intelligence work has all kind of converged around deep learning. Deep learning is amazing and super powerful, and we've gotten a lot out of it, but what it has done is, both attracted a lot of people to Artificial Intelligence, but also, steered all the research efforts away from other approaches into deep learning. And you could say that makes some sense, because for a long time, we weren't making a lot of advancement with these other approaches. But the truth is, most of the advancement in artificial intelligence really comes from the growth in computation and our ability to wrangle a lot of computation. If you took that same approach, with other algorithms, you may well get interesting results. If you could apply as much computation to them, the way we have for the large language models. And so what really excites me is when I find people who are working on other approaches to artificial intelligence. My buddy, Dr. Ryad Benosman, has been working on different approaches to processing data for a long time, primarily in vision. And his worldview is highly neuromorphic. It's about trying to understand. What is the brain doing with this data? How do I get a computer to do the things that the brain would do? And that's hard because we don't know exactly what a brain does, but one of the things we know is the way that eyeballs incorporate the signal that they get, and then try to turn that into something that the brain can put to use and that's It's obviously not done the way that deep learning works. A lot of what Ryad has worked on has been time series machine learning, those are my words, not his, but basically what it means is, trying to process this data in real time in the order that you receive it and piece together, something meaningful. That's very applicable to computer vision. I think Ryad has been responsible for spinning about four companies out of labs, to develop these technologies. Probably the most well-known is called, the Prophesee Camera, which, they developed and then sold to Sony. This is a camera is an event camera. Instead of just taking frames 30 times a second, aggregating all the signal on every pixel and sticking it into a frame, what an event camera can do is look at the signal that's changing in any pixel , in the sensor, and this is very important for things like sensor fusion going forward. The work he's done on algorithms to make that possible is super exciting. Ryad was a professor in France for a long time. Most recently in Pittsburgh and at Carnegie Mellon. He's been all over the place, on skunkworks at Meta, and now is doing exciting things we can't talk about, but look, most people never get a chance to hang out with Ryad. I'm so thrilled that I got to, get him on the podcast and share him with you. Important Links Prophesee UPMC Carnegie Mellon University RD About Chris Young Dr. Ryad Benosman is professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Benosman was a full professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut de la Vision, in France. He is curently Director of Research at Meta (Neuromorphic and Event based Sensing and Computation) He has worked on Event-based (Neuromorphic) Sensing and Computation, applied to develop novel Brain Inspired Machine Learning. His lab used to be the home of the event-based neuromorphic silicon retina ATIS and several other neuromorphic AI related platforms. He also has worked on brain implants and retina prosthetics and optogenetics stimulation.

Today we're joined by Gokul Swamy, a Ph.D. Student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In the final conversation of our ICML 2023 series, we sat down with Gokul to discuss his accepted papers at the event, leading off with “Inverse Reinforcement Learning without Reinforcement Learning.” In this paper, Gokul explores the challenges and benefits of inverse reinforcement learning, and the potential and advantages it holds for various applications. Next up, we explore the “Complementing a Policy with a Different Observation Space” paper which applies causal inference techniques to accurately estimate sampling balance and make decisions based on limited observed features. Finally, we touched on “Learning Shared Safety Constraints from Multi-task Demonstrations” which centers on learning safety constraints from demonstrations using the inverse reinforcement learning approach. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/643.

Innovation Works announces the appointment of Kevin Dowling as interim lead of the Robotics Factory. Dowling, a tech leader who was involved with three IW companies and a founding member and board chair of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, brings with him an impressive repertoire of experience and leadership to helm the Robotics Factory program. Kevin's career highlights include a 17-year tenure as Scientist and Senior Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and holding the position of CEO at Kaarta. He has also worked in technology leadership roles at PRI Automation, Color Kinetics (acquired by Philips), and MC10. Listen and learn how Kevin's unique blend of technical knowledge and business acumen will be invaluable in driving the development of the Robotics Factory. Launched in partnership with the Pittsburgh Robotics Network and other regional partners, the Robotics Factory is a part of a $63 million grant awarded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to the Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative as part of their Build Back Better Regional Challenge.  The Robotics Factory, under the leadership of Innovation Works and with four-year support from the EDA, will operate a series of inter-related programs.  As this podcast was posting, IW announced The Robotics Factory will locate in the Tech Forge building in Lawrenceville, part of the long “Robotics Row” that runs from the Strip District.  The first cohort of six companies chosen to participate in the Accelerate program will re-locate to the Lawrenceville location as soon as feasible.  Also, the factory's new space will serve as a designated home for the Scale program. The Scale program offers unmatched expertise in product prototyping and services, facilitating the creation of production-ready products. Providing in-house design for manufacturing, supply chain management, prototyping support, and access to the region's comprehensive manufacturing resources, this new hub signifies a critical milestone in the program. By integrating manufacturing considerations at the initial design stages, companies can accelerate growth, deploy technologies, and achieve scalability more swiftly.

Today's podcast is titled, “Robotics.” Chuck Thorpe, Principal Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. Takeo Kanade, Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss the economics of robotics, advances in technology, and roadblocks to innovation. They also expand on the many educational and entertainment purposes of robots. Listen now, and don't forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.

Sankalp Arora and Joe Lynch discuss gathering inventory data, a function that is being transformed by Sankalp's company Gather AI. Sankalp is CEO and Co-founder at Gather AI, a warehouse automation company that has created the world's first drone-powered inventory monitoring solution. About Sankalp Arora Sankalp Arora is an accomplished entrepreneur and roboticist, currently serving as the CEO and Co-founder of Gather AI, a cutting-edge warehouse automation company. Gather AI has created the world's first drone-powered inventory monitoring solution, which promises to revolutionize the way warehouses manage their inventory. Sankalp has a wealth of experience in the field of robotics, having spent 14 years working on various projects related to autonomous vehicles and robotics. He played a key role in developing safety and sensor planning for the world's first safe autonomous helicopter, a project that earned several prestigious awards including the Howard Hughes award, AUVSI Xcellence award, and a nomination for the Collier Trophy. Sankalp's innovative work has also earned him recognition in the form of the Qualcomm Innovation fellowship and Swartz Innovation fellowship. He holds a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where he conducted extensive research on robotic perception and control. With his vast experience and expertise in robotics and automation, Sankalp is leading Gather AI towards a brighter future, where the power of drone technology can be harnessed to optimize warehouse operations and transform the logistics industry as we know it.  About Gather AI Gather AI is a pioneering warehouse automation company that was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company has quickly established itself as a leader in the field of drone-powered inventory monitoring, providing warehouse operators with an innovative solution to optimize their profitability. Led by a team of experienced roboticists and entrepreneurs, including founders Sankalp Arora, Daniel Maturana, and Geetesh Dubey, Gather AI has developed a unique product that is already being used by warehouses across a range of industries, including third-party logistics, retail distribution, manufacturing, and food & beverage. With its cutting-edge technology and forward-thinking approach, Gather AI is poised to revolutionize the logistics industry and transform the way warehouses operate in the years to come. Key Takeaways: Gathering Inventory Data Sankalp Arora is CEO and Co-founder at Gather AI, a warehouse automation company that has created the world's first drone-powered inventory monitoring solution. Gather AI uses off-the-shelf autonomous drones to gather data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Gather AI was co-founded in 2019 by Sankalp Arora, Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, who were graduate students at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. Gather AI's core product is an inventory monitoring system that uses off-the-shelf autonomous drones. Gather AI's approach is more fungible and less costly than that of its rivals because it relies on consumer drones instead of custom-built ones. Consumer-grade drones are more attainable and scalable than their commercial counterparts, and still able to perform tasks like detecting damaged inventory and counting pallet cases. A core innovation of Gather AI is that it can achieve sophisticated state estimation on commodity hardware and can fly autonomously without GPS on drones that can be bought at consumer stores. With Gather AI you can drive efficiency with autonomous warehouse drones. What used to take employees 2 hours can now be done in an automated 8 minutes. A common knock-on autonomous inventory solutions is that not all warehouses are robot-friendly, and that if barcodes aren't displayed perfectly, then the system suffers. Gather AI can read your existing labels over 95% of the time. Learn About Gathering Inventory Data Sankalp on LinkedIn Gather AI on LinkedIn Gather AI on Twitter Gather AI website The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube

Join us as we speak with Dr. Parag Batavia about the evolution of the Pittsburgh Robotics scene, growing a business, and so much more. Dr. Parag Batavia is a robotics entrepreneur with a proven track record of starting, leading, growing, and exiting robotics and autonomy companies. His technology focus is on outdoor off-road autonomy, manned-unmanned teaming, and mission planning. His most recent company was Neya Systems, LLC, which he started as the sole founder in 2009. Neya focuses on developing robust off-road autonomy for defense and commercial customers. In 2017, after 8 years of continued growth, Neya was acquired by Applied Research Associates. Parag continues to work at Neya part time, as the Chief Technology Strategist, where he helps to guide Neya's technology development efforts and lead key business development activities. Parag is also currently an instructor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, where he teaches a two- semester course on “How to Build a Robotics Startup”. Finally, he cares deeply about the growth of the Pittsburgh robotics ecosystem. To that end, he also serves on the Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, and the governing board of the SWPA New Economy Collaborative Board of Directors. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1995, a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon in 1999, and an MBA from Drexel University in 2009. #Roboticscompanies in Pittsburgh should check out The Robotics Factory and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network if they haven't already. If you enjoyed this episode and want to see / hear more like it please subscribe to Collaborative With Spencer Krause today. You'll get notified every time a new episode releases and it's the best way to support the channel!

Join us as we speak with Dr. Parag Batavia about the evolution of the Pittsburgh Robotics scene, growing a business, and so much more. Dr. Parag Batavia is a robotics entrepreneur with a proven track record of starting, leading, growing, and exiting robotics and autonomy companies. His technology focus is on outdoor off-road autonomy, manned-unmanned teaming, and mission planning. His most recent company was Neya Systems, LLC, which he started as the sole founder in 2009. Neya focuses on developing robust off-road autonomy for defense and commercial customers. In 2017, after 8 years of continued growth, Neya was acquired by Applied Research Associates. Parag continues to work at Neya part time, as the Chief Technology Strategist, where he helps to guide Neya's technology development efforts and lead key business development activities. Parag is also currently an instructor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, where he teaches a two- semester course on “How to Build a Robotics Startup”. Finally, he cares deeply about the growth of the Pittsburgh robotics ecosystem. To that end, he also serves on the Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, and the governing board of the SWPA New Economy Collaborative Board of Directors. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1995, a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon in 1999, and an MBA from Drexel University in 2009. #Roboticscompanies in Pittsburgh should check out The Robotics Factory and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network if they haven't already. If you enjoyed this episode and want to see / hear more like it please subscribe to Collaborative With Spencer Krause today. You'll get notified every time a new episode releases and it's the best way to support the channel!

What counts as a robot? This hour, a look at what robots are and the latest in robot technology. Plus, how robots were used and thought about in medieval times and Ancient Greece and the role of robots in science fiction. GUESTS: Chris Atkeson: Professor at the Robotics Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Adrienne Mayor: Author of Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, among other books Elly Truitt: Author of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art Daniel H. Wilson: Author of Robopocalypse and How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion, among other books The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired July 12, 2022.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Claire chatted to Chris Atkeson from Carnegie Mellon University all about humanoid robots, human-aware environments and the future of AI and robotics. Chris Atkeson is a professor in the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on developing humanoid and super-human robots. His work inspired aspects of the design of the character Baymax (an inflatable robot that takes care of people) in the Disney movie Big Hero 6. His life goal is to fulfil the science fiction vision of machines that achieve human levels of competence in perceiving, thinking, and acting.

On today's episode of The Confluence: Six people were injured in a shooting at a funeral Friday in Brighton Heights, but police say they've arrested two people suspected of being involved; what's next for autonomous driving research at a Pittsburgh university now that Argo AI has folded; and how UPMC Children's Hospital is responding to respiratory diseases on the rise and a surge in emergency room patients.Today's guests include: Jillian Forstadt, WESA reporter; Matthew Johnson-Roberson, director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University; and Dr. Ray Pitetti, director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UPMC Children's Hospital.

This is the city, Eos, Aurora. It's the city of the dawn on the planet of the dawn. It's the largest and most important city on the oldest and most important Spacer World. Mostly, good things happen in Eos, the Robotics Institute is in Eos as is the planetary government. Sometimes bad things happen; things that require a lot of discussion. Was the victim even alive? Was this even a crime? Questions that need answers. When that happens, I go to work. I carry a badge. Friday, October 30. It was windy in Eos. We were working the day watch out of the roboticide division. Our host is Han Fastolfe. My partner's Daneel Olivaw. My name is Baley. Join us as we get into the meat of The Robots of Dawn. Baley starts to learn the details of the case, and Fastolfe performs some experiments on Baley. Plus the return of an old friend, the wackiest trip to the lavatory in all of the Asimov canon, and the Great and Glorious Az tries his hand at writing romance. As always, you've read it, we talk about it, and fun will be had.

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses how robotics is changing the field of religious education.

AI is the name of the game this week! My special guest is Wei Li, VP and GM, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (AIA) at Intel. Wei and I dig into the details of Intel's new Open Source AI Reference Kits. We discuss the motivation to create these open source kits, why community involvement is crucial to Intel's AI Everywhere campaign, and how engineers of varying levels of expertise can take advantage of these new reference kits. Also this week, I investigate the first AI pilot developed by a team of researchers from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. 

⚡ The MoonArk is both conceptual art and a time capsule. Almost 15 years ago, the idea was to create a time capsule carrying fragments of the world as we know it today and  send it to the moon to be discovered in the distant future. Today, the project has 60 members from 18 institutions and over 250 contributing designers, scientists, poets, musicians etc. Mark Baskinger, one of the first to get involved with the project, shares what it was like at the beginning. ''The MoonArk was a conceptual idea concocted by a few pioneering faculty members here, namely, Red Whitaker in the Robotics Institute and Lowry Burgess, former Dean of the College of Fine Arts. And their thought was that if Carnegie Mellon were to go to the moon, it can't just be the sciences and the technologies and that side of campus represented and that the arts would surely have something to contribute.''  ⚡ Working on MoonArk was creative and exciting but challenging. As our guests say, creating an object like the MoonArk goes beyond making it look nice. It has to be safe and resilient to different conditions. ''We wanted it to be beautiful and aesthetic. So we went about making it with no real knowledge of what it was going to take to get it there. So, when it was time to put the rubber on the road, we were like, 'Oh, my goodness. It has to go through all this different, rigorous testing,''' says Dylan.⚡ Many components are handmade. What makes the MoonArk astonishing is the amount of work, especially manual work, that's been put into its creation. ''[...], a sculptor metal worker made quite a contribution to this project. It was amazing to visit and watch him do this under the monitor, zoomed in significantly — getting to see the intricacy of the work that was a part of it. But the biggest issue was whether those micro welds would be strong and consistent enough to be able to sustain the rigorous trip that the MoonArk was going to go through,'' explains Matt. 

What counts as a robot? This hour, we look at what robots are and learn about the latest in robot technology. We'll also go back in time to discover how robots were used and thought about in medieval times and ancient Greece. Plus, we'll talk about the role of robots in science fiction, and how the genre has shaped our attitudes towards robotics. GUESTS:  Elly Truitt: Professor in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, author of Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art Adrienne Mayor: Research Scholar in the Classics and History and Philosophy of Science Department at Stanford University, author of Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, among other books Chris Atkeson: Professor at the Robotics Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Daniel H. Wilson: Author of books including Robopocalypse, Robogenesis, and How To Survive a Robot Uprising, his latest novel is The Andromeda Evolution, an authorized sequel to Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever been in a room full of growth companies, investors, academics, entrepreneurs, and technologist all working together to advance the industry? It's rare to get all of these players in a tech ecosystem together in one place, but that's just what Cascadia Capital did at Cascadia Connect 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA. With such a range of leaders in Robotics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence across the industrial world, we had the opportunity to sit down with 10 of these individuals to hear their perspectives on the future of these technologies and their applications. We owe a big thanks to Cascadia Capital for bringing these amazing folks together. In this first edition of this double feature, we'll hear from the individuals leading “robotics clusters” in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Pittsburgh, as well as academics that have dedicated themselves to the advancement of robotics. Get ready to learn from the following five guests in Part 1 of this special feature: Andra Keay, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics Fady Saad, Co-Founder of MassRobotics and General Partner at Cybernetix Ventures Joel Reed, Executive Direct of Pittsburgh Robotics Network Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Director of the Robotics Institute and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Thomas Evans, Ph.D., Robotics Chief Technology Officer at Honeywell Make sure to visit ManufacturingHappyHour.com/Connect2022 for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

We're coming to you  from Pittsburgh, where GeekWire is reporting on the future of robotics, AI and automation this week in conjunction with the Cascadia Connect Robotics, Automation & AI conference, organized by Seattle-based Cascadia Capital, which is underwriting our independent coverage of this topic. This week's podcast is with Matthew Johnson-Roberson, the director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, which has been the source of numerous breakthroughs in robotics and automation since its founding in the late 1970s. Johnson-Roberson spent part of his childhood in Seattle, where he went to Garfield High School. He was a CMU computer science undergrad who went on to get his doctorate in robotics at the University of Sydney and worked at the University of Michigan before returning to CMU as the leader of the Robotics Institute earlier this year.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence with Martial Hebert, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh. A veteran computer scientist in the field of computer vision, Hebert is the former director of CMU's prestigious Robotics Institute. A native of France, he also had the distinguished honor of being our first in-person podcast guest in two years, visiting the GeekWire offices during his recent trip to the Seattle area. As you'll hear, our discussion doubled as a preview of a trip that GeekWire's news team will soon be making to Pittsburgh, revisiting the city that hosted our temporary GeekWire HQ2 in 2018, and reporting from Cascadia Connect Robotics, Automation & AI conference, with coverage supported by Cascadia Capital. More details soon. Hosted by GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited and produced by Curt Milton, with music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tekin Meriçli, Ph.D. is a co-founder and the CTO of Locomation, a company re-engineering the world's supply chain for autonomy with a portfolio of AV products and a suite of tools that enable their clients to implement an operating model for autonomous vehicles Key topics in this conversation include: Tekin's background in robotics and how he got into automated driving, including the DARPA Urban Challenge The efficiency and sustainability benefits of Locomation's Autonomous Relay Convoy How Locomation is providing backend tools to enable their customers to realize the full potential of automated driving How Tekin thinks about his role as CTO, and what it takes to excel The importance of safety and reliability as Locomation heads towards commercialization Links: Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/tekinmericli Locomation website: https://locomation.ai/ Tekin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tekinmericli/ Future of Mobility episode 27 with Locomation's CEO, Çetin Meriçli: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-%C3%A7etin-meri%C3%A7li-locomation-automated-driving-for-semi/id1511658261?i=1000499886635 Locomation's announcement with Christenson Transportation: https://locomation.ai/christenson-transportation-selects-locomation-to-deploy-its-autonomous-truck-service-will-boost-capacity-increase-profits-and-reduce-emissions/ Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Tekin's Bio: Tekin Meriçli, Ph.D. is a co-founder and the CTO of Locomation. Prior to Locomation, he was a Special Faculty – Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute where he was also a Senior Robotics Engineer. Since 2003, Dr. Meriçli has been practicing systems engineering across a wide variety of robots and systems including autonomous and semi-autonomous ground vehicles, mapping, state estimation, and operator assist systems, perception and motion planning for ground and aerial robots, industrial automation and process improvement, wheeled tour guide and service robots, intelligent assistive robotic manipulators and search and rescue robots, and various legged robots. He also has over 40 publications in the areas of robotics and computer sciences, including best paper award recipients. About Locomation: Locomation is re-engineering the world's supply chain for autonomy with a portfolio of AV products and a suite of tools that enable our clients to implement an operating model for autonomous vehicles. Launched in 2018 by veterans of Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, the Locomation team includes some of the world's foremost experts in robotics technology, artificial intelligence, trucking, freight optimization, safety, and automotive. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/

The University of Michigan is the first top 10 engineering school in the U.S. to launch a Department of Robotics. With its hands-on, innovative approach, the university is preparing today's students to become tomorrow's roboticists.We sat down with Damen Provost, Managing Director of the U-M Robotics Institute to talk about the exciting field of robotics and the cutting-edge research being done in Michigan.RoboticistsWhat is a roboticist? From industrial robots, to bideps, to aerial drones, robotics is a broad field with endless potential. Damen helps us understand the 3 fundamental capabilities of these smart machines and what it takes to be come a "full stack roboticist".Partnering with Real RoboticistsU-M has developed strong partnerships with Ford and its team of 100 roboticists. Hear about the industry-education collaboration and how its impacting students at the university.Democratization of Engineering EducationTo enable more students to pursue STEM pathways, U-M has made some of their curriculum accessible to other universities, schools and students. The more educators work together, the greater the benefit to all students, no matter their socioeconomic background.Access the 5 open-source courses here: https://robotics.umich.edu/academic-program/courses/online-courses/

From new mRNA vaccines, to space mission and developments in robotic automation, in this episode we talk to three experts about some of the scientific advances they're watching out for in 2022. Featuring Deborah Fuller, professor of microbiology at the School of Medicine at University of Washington in the US and an expert on mRNA and DNA vaccines; Monica Grady, professor of planetary and space sciences at The Open University in the UK; Teresa Vidal-Calleja, associate professor at the Robotics Institute at University of Technology Sydney.We also speak about what 2022 holds in store for global inequality with economist Carlos Gradín, research fellow at United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki in Finland. And Naomi Schalit, senior politics and society editor at The Conversation in Boston in the US, recommends some reading to mark the one year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. The Conversation Weekly is produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. You can sign up to The Conversation's free daily email here. Full credits for this episode available here.Further reading:Material from asteroid Ryugu starts to give up secrets of early Solar System, by Monica Grady, The Open UniversityGlobal inequality may be falling, but the gap between haves and have-nots is growing, by Carlos Gradín, United Nations University & colleaguesThe ‘sore loser effect': Rejecting election results can destabilize democracy and drive terrorism, by James Piazza, Penn StateAmerican support for conspiracy theories and armed rebellion isn't new – we just didn't believe it before the Capitol insurrection, by Amanda J. Crawford, University of Connecticut See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Craig S. Markovitz is an Entrepreneur in Residence in the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and a Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is also the inaugural Prosser Mellon Fellow at the RK Mellon Foundation as well as a Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Specialist with the law firm of Troutman Pepper. Markovitz is co-founder of Blue Belt Technologies, Inc., a spinoff from the Robotics Institute at CMU and served as the company's Chief Executive Officer for over 7 years. In this capacity, he launched the company, raised capital, managed operations, and led a January 2011 merger with HealthpointCapital. He then transitioned to Chief Operating Officer and helped to lead substantial growth of the company from pre-revenue and 18 employees to multi-million in revenue and 150 employees. Craig was a key member of the deal team that led to an acquisition by Smith and Nephew, plc in January 2016 for $275,000,000. In addition, Markovitz was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Spotlight Medical, Inc. Spotlight was a spinoff company based on technology developed jointly by Carnegie Mellon University and The University of Pittsburgh. He managed this company to a successful exit as well.

The opportunity to work from home may be taken for granted a bit more within the last year and a half, but for years Rev.com has been providing opportunities for tens of thousands to work from home. Adri Nowell the VP of Marketing at Rev, came to our studios in Austin, Texas to talk about what it means to her to see so many people able to work from home with Rev.  Adri's experience as a marketer and a leader gives her a unique ability to serve both the Rev customer, as well as the tens of thousands of transcriptionists that Rev employs in a massive remote workforce. “We work with about 70,000 professionals who, some of which don't have great options for how to make money [because] they have an elderly parent or they're a primary caregiver for a child. When I connect with the Rev-ers in our community, it brings me so much joy. I've talked to mothers who have sick children in the hospital who are transcribing at the foot of a hospital bed. Being able to put your child first and be able to provide that type of love and compassion and care for your child while also being able to make a living. Those moments make me so proud.” Learning how Adri runs an ABM campaign, what skills she uses as a leader, and how she thinks about scaling her team will give you great insight into your own exciting growth and leadership. It was so great to speak with Adri in person about her experience in marketing and how they're growing at Rev. Get inspired with Adri, up next here on Marketing Trends. Main TakeawaysThe transition from Doer to Leader: When you're in the trenches doing the actual work, your actual day-to-day responsibilities are different from those of the leadership of your marketing team. Transitioning to leadership isn't for everyone; some really enjoy the work of making the campaigns happen. When you're the leader you have to rely on the savvy of the marketers on your team and give them the tools that you know work and watch them make it happen! Account-Based Marketing Challenges: One of the biggest challenges of running a successful Account-Based Marketing or ABM campaign is getting the structure of the accounts right. Define what a segment is, define who your tier one in the funnel is; define what an account is. If you go through this legwork and really take the time to build a good foundation, you'll have set yourself up for a great campaign. Working with Speed and Excellence as You Scale: When your company is experiencing massive growth it's tempting to just start moving really fast and being okay with things breaking. If you can take a little extra time to make sure that you don't go too fast and make needless mistakes, that is way more profitable in the long run.  You need to quickly automate whatever you can when you're in a high-growth environment so that you can leave that task with confidence as you go to solve the next big problem. Key Quotes“Now that we're going after [more] market segments the marketing responsibilities are going to shift around. We generally test everything that we can; learn quickly; fail quickly; fail cheaply, and for the things that work, invest in them. When you have that type of mindset, you get scrappy marketers that are willing to tackle new challenges, and test new channels or test new tactics.“People get really nervous [about transitioning to leadership]. It's an emotional thing. It's a natural, emotional reaction. And Molly Graham actually describes this really well. And she talks about this concept, this emotional rollercoaster that people go through during these transition periods as she uses the metaphor of building a LEGO tower and then giving away your LEGO tower, which is so relevant. You have all these smart marketers that can jump in and they can tackle a challenge. And they built up their Lego tower and made it successful and then they have to hand their LEGO to the next person coming in. It can be really nerve-wracking. ‘What if someone breaks the LEGO tower? What if they build it back up in the wrong way, or maybe they don't expand upon it in the right way?' And I've found her description of this to be really relevant and taken her advice to talk about it." “Marketing is never settled. You're never done in marketing. Consumer behaviors are always changing. You always want to go back and retest or test different variations. We measure [our success] by getting people to respond. ‘Are we getting them to the next action?' Whether that's actually converting into a paying customer or taking the next step with us in their journey… and when new channels work, we expand them; when they don't, we abandon them. [We're] constantly just exploring new outlets.”“We work with about 70,000 professionals who, some of which don't have great options for how to make money [because] they have an elderly parent or they're a primary caregiver for a child. When I connect with the Rev-ers in our community, it brings me so much joy. I've talked to mothers who have sick children in the hospital who are transcribing at the foot of a hospital bed. Being able to put your child first and be able to provide that type of love and compassion and care for your child while also being able to make a living. Those moments make me so proud.” “With any launch, you start all the way at the timeframe of ‘What's the problem that you're trying to solve?' My philosophy is to listen to the market. You should be talking to your customers; you should be talking to your prospects. You should be talking to people that want to do business with you should also be talking to people who don't want to do business with you.”“The most important thing with account-based marketing is in how you structure the accounts that you want to go after. How do you define what a segment is? What is an account? Who are the customers? Who do you want to reach? What are the contexts within each of those accounts? Who goes into your tier one bucket? And then who's kind of your catch-all for what you want your one-to-one for your tier one accounts. You want your tier one accounts to receive more of a personalized experience, but you don't want to overdo it. If you're going so extreme that it feels forced, people are going to reject the marketing material. There's definitely a place for it, but it's really about finding the right balance.”“Speed is tough and the thing that I've found the most difficult is balancing the speed at which you accelerate growth and operational excellence is it's not hard to go fast. It's hard to go fast and not break things. And so that is where we've found probably the biggest challenge is how can we continue to accelerate growth, but at the same time, establish a foundation that is going to scale. And so with marketing, that's incredibly important because you need the right operational pieces. It is acceptable for some period of time to do things manually, but you can't stay there. You have to put operational pieces in place so that you can scale. Finding the right balance is very challenging.”BioAdri Nowell is VP of Marketing at Rev.com. In this role, she serves as the executive leader accountable for the strategy and execution of marketing programs across all segments - individual users (B2C), Enterprise/Mid-market (B2B), and developers. She provides leadership and management oversight across Product Marketing, Performance Marketing, Email Marketing, Demand Marketing, Content Marketing, Web, Brand, and Creative for the company.Before joining Rev, Adri served as the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Bazaarvoice and before that as Director of Marketing at Volusion. Prior to that, Adri held a variety of roles at engineering technology provider National Instruments including Product Marketing Manager and Support Engineer. Adri began her career at the University of Oklahoma as a Software Developer in the Robotics Institute of Machine Learning. Adri holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Oklahoma, in Norman, OK.---Marketing Trends podcast is brought to you by Salesforce. 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Çetin Meriçli, Ph.D. is a co-founder and the CEO of Locomation. Formerly a Special Faculty – Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, Dr. Meriçli has over 15 years of experience in developing and deploying complex robotic systems for real-world applications – and he has played key roles in over a dozen high profile applied robotics projects. His expertise can be read in over 40 publications on subjects covering his accomplishments including safe and efficient machine learning for robust robot autonomy and perception, robot learning from human demonstration and feedback, interactive learning, sliding autonomy through learning, long-term autonomy and lifelong learning, data-driven high-fidelity robot simulation, human-robot interaction, probabilistic robotics, multi-robot coordination and planning, and software engineering practices for robot software development.

Parag Batavia is a robotics entrepreneur with a proven track record of starting, leading, growing, and exiting robotics and autonomy companies. His technology focus is on outdoor off-road autonomy, manned-unmanned teaming, and mission planning. Parag's most recent company was Neya Systems, LLC, which he started as the sole founder in 2009. At Neya, we focus on developing robust off-road autonomy for defense and commercial customers. In 2017, after 8 years of continued growth, Parag sold Neya to Applied Research Associates, so that we could have access to the resources and expertise needed to accelerate our capabilities. He continues to work at Neya part time, as the Chief Technology Strategist, where Parah helps to guide Neya's technology development efforts and lead key business development activities. Parag is currently an instructor at Carnegie Mellon in the Robotics Institute, where he teaches “How to Build a Robotics Startup” in the Masters in Robotics Systems Development program. He also serves on the Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network.

Episode: 0013 Release Date: 4th of November 2021 Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale  Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.  Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk  Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts ,  https://www.leapodcasts.com/  Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org,  LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).  Timings  00:00:17- Introducing Olli 00:01:13- How Olli started in Law Enforcement  00:04:46: Law Enforcement in the US  00:05:23: Human Trafficking  00:20:23: Changes that are needed  00:28:33: NEW ANNOUNCEMENT 00:28:54: ACIA's NEW PODCAST: Crime Analysis: From Between the Tropics. Hosted by Emmanuel James Oteng.  Bio: Dr. Andreas (Olli) M. Olligschlaeger specializes in law enforcement information systems and software development for federal, state and local agencies. Formerly a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy, the Robotics Institute and the School of Computer Science, Olli also has practical experience working within law enforcement agencies in vice and narcotics enforcement, crime analysis and criminal intelligence. The primary focus of his 30 year career spanning academia, practical law enforcement and private industry has been on integrating advanced technologies into systems designed to not only support law enforcement personnel in their investigations, but also to make them more efficient. Olli's primary expertise is in artificial intelligence methods for crime forecasting, advanced analytical tools for the automated mining of very large data sets for both crime analysis and criminal intelligence, meta data extraction, advanced spatial statistical methods, expert systems, and designing and implementing tools to collect millions of OSINT records from the web on a daily basis and ingest them into a variety of databases. His work in correctional intelligence has included the automated mining of and topic detection within speech recognized text derived from inmate telephone calls. Most recently Olli is applying big data analytics, computer vision, natural language processing and other machine learning techniques to detect human trafficking in on line adult escort ads. Together with his team at Marinus Analytics he recently finished third in the Global AI for Good XPrize competition. Olli is a member of the International Association of Crime Analysts, the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts, the Society of Police Futurists International, where he is a past president, and serves on the ethics advisory board of the High Tech Crime Consortium.

Jessica Pachuta and Dror Yaron are Innovation Ethics Coaches and the Founders of Ethics MVP. They previously worked for more than a decade at the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, looking at the role of technology in society. Jessica worked as the Pilot Project Manager and Co-Director of CREATE Lab and holds a Master's in Entrepreneurship and Project Management from Chatham University. Dror was the Director of Outreach for CREATE Lab and previously worked as a freelance photographer and journalist. Jessica and Dror join me today to discuss how to innovate ethically. They share how the educational system is receiving the mindset of values-driven and human benefiting technology. Jessica highlights why we need to include time to stop and consider the unintended consequences of technology during innovation, research, and development cycles. Dror explores the relationship between ethics and values and the social contract. We also discuss a framework for business ethics and decision making and highlight which decisions are sustainable. “Your ethics become your values in action.” - Jessica Pachuta This week on Insert:Human How the educational system responded to the prospects of values-driven technology and why we need to humanize education Why we need to make time to consider the unintended consequences during R&D and innovation cycles Examining and understanding your ethics, culture, and values and putting these into action Why it is crucial to adopt an ethics-driven business lifestyle and enroll the whole ecosystem The links between screen-time addiction and mental health issues The three business ethics questions to ask, according to Professor John Hooker Resources Mentioned: The Wall Street Journal: Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine Book: Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke Connect with Jessica Pachuta: Ethics MVP Ethics MVP on LinkedIn Ethics MVP on Twitter Jessica Pachuta on LinkedIn Connect with Dror Yaron: Ethics MVP Ethics MVP on LinkedIn Ethics MVP on Twitter Dror Yaron on LinkedIn Insert:Human - For a Better Life & Better World Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Insert:Human. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more seekers and problem-solvers, like you. Join me on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. For more exclusive content and to claim your free copy of the first chapter of my upcoming book, Technology is Dead, visit my website.

Would you take a ride in a self-driving car? Wondering how long it will be before you see them on the roads? In this episode of Arduino EDUvision, we talk to Çetin Meriçli, about self-driving vehicles and robotics. Çetin is the CEO and co-founder of Locomation, a leading developer of safe and reliable autonomous driving technology for semi-trucks. An experienced entrepreneur and former Special Faculty at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He has two decades of experience in developing and deploying complex robotic systems for commercial, military, and scientific applications and he has played key roles in over a dozen high profile applied robotics projects. He's also a well-published expert in AI, robotics, and machine learning. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/arduino/message

In most other industries, it's the customer who consumes the services and engages with the purveyor of services. In health care, not so much. Legacy health care has evolved to honor the insurance carrier as the customer or, in some cases, the fancy surgeon or other driver of revenue as the customer. Listen to the podcast with Marshall Allen for more on that front, but yeah. And here we are.  Health care should be designed so that patients get the best outcomes at a financially not-toxic price point. Otherwise, what are we doing here besides putting profit over patients? In this health care podcast, the conversation is about PCVS, otherwise known as creating a “patient-centered value system,” otherwise known as building a new OS, or operating system, for health care—one that is built around the patient and their experience. The general idea here is to rationalize the patient journey from start to finish: to create a longitudinal flow that guides a patient from here to where they need to be with a minimum of being told you need a follow-up appointment but having no idea with whom or how that's supposed to happen and when, or getting discharged with no instructions, etc. So, PCVS … let's talk about this, how this works, real quick before we dive in with Dr. DiGioia. In a nutshell, the first step is to really, really carefully trace the patient journey from beginning—really the very, very beginning of the experience, which might start in the parking lot or with the first digital interaction or at the PCP referral—to the very last interaction, which might be after discharge from the SNF (skilled nursing facility) after their last follow-up appointment. It's figuring out what matters to the patient at each step in that journey and then documenting that flow map. Then the next step is to compare the current patient journey, the current state, to what the team decides is the ideal patient journey. Then the last task, which may be obvious, is to implement—for implementation teams to devise and implement action plans to get from here to there. Here's an interesting point to ponder: We often talk about fragmentation and interoperability, and when I said these words, your brain immediately snapped to technology fragmentation and interoperability. But bear this in mind: The patient is the only commonality between all the settings of care that are using all those varied technologies. When you rationalize the patient journey, you also, to some extent, create the foundation to integrate technology. Why a PCVS process, you might ask, if you're in charge of the P&L and regard patient centeredness as a nice to have if there's extra cash lying around? Here's why: If you're going to successfully roll out a prospective bundle, for example, to employers, you better have gone through a PCVS process. Other things, too, but being intimately aware of the patient journey and where patients fall through the cracks or get disgruntled can easily spell the difference between bundle success and failure. This is probably also true for really almost any sort of risk-based/capitation arrangement. It's probably also true for great customer satisfaction scores. It's probably also going to become increasingly true when competing against some of these virtual-first operations that may have been built from the ground up to be sticky and engaging for patients, as well as guide them through a longitudinal journey. For more on the WIIFM (the “what's in it for me?”) if you are a provider organization and are thinking about patient-centered care, listen to one of our most popular episodes over here at Relentless Health Value—the one with Joe Selby, MD, from PCORI—on this topic. In this health care podcast, I'm talking with Tony DiGioia, MD, about PCVS (patient-centered value systems). Dr. DiGioia is a practicing orthopedic surgeon at the Bone and Joint Center over at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and also the medical director of the UPMC Innovation Center. Dr. DiGioia wrote a book aptly titled The Patient Centered Value System.  One thing I thought of as I listened to this conversation again in preparation for releasing the episode: Dr. Shantanu Nundy has written that on the front lines of health care, clinicians and other frontline workers know what to do for their patients. They know what's the matter and what matters to the patient and, really, what they need. Dr. Nundy talks about how, to efficiently transform health care, one thing that we need to do is “decentralize” control or shift power in terms of decision-making authority and resources back to the front lines and to patients. The point that I'm making is that the PCVS might be the OS that health care needs for “decentralization” to happen at a system level and in a way that everyone works together toward a common, aligned goal—as opposed to clinicians and patients all doing their own thing, making their own assessments about what is needed at any given moment at potentially cross-purposes to one another, re-creating all kinds of wheels that are going all kinds of different directions. You can learn more at discoverdrd.com and goshadow.org. Anthony (Tony) DiGioia, MD, is an entrepreneur, engineer, and practicing orthopedic surgeon, and a pioneer in care delivery transformation. “Dr. D” developed the Patient Centered Value System (PCVS), a personalized, replicable approach to care that improves clinical outcomes and experiences while reducing costs. His book, The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare Through Co-Design, helps you understand what matters most to patients, map the current state of care in your organization, identify what can be improved, and build teams that co-design sustainable change. Using “What Matters to You?” surveys and shadowing to keep patients and families at the core of care, the PCVS serves as the care delivery model for Dr. D's current award-winning practice at the Bone and Joint Center at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital.  Dr. D most recently used the PCVS to develop the Center for Bone and Joint Health, flipping the script of routine health care visits by putting patients in the driver's seat. In this relationship-based program, patients team up with providers to engage in their own care and personalize a plan based on their needs and priorities. But the PCVS is not just for orthopedics. It is increasingly being adopted nationally and internationally and has been applied to over 65 clinical conditions. Dr. D is medical director of the Magee Bone and Joint Center as well as the UPMC Innovation Center and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He is a faculty member for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. D founded the not-for-profit AMD3 Foundation, which leads the Operation Walk Pittsburgh medical mission effort. 06:19 What is the Patient-Centered Value System, and why should it be the operating system for all health systems moving forward? 07:47 “It's the infrastructure to allow us to redesign care delivery.” 09:00 “These artificial silos that we have in health care have to be crossed and broken down.” 10:03 “The patient is the common denominator. We have to follow the patient.” 10:33 Why does the disjointed patient experience affect a patient's trust in their care delivery? 12:00 What are the steps to creating a patient-centric system? 12:30 “The challenge is to view all care through the eyes of patients and families.” 13:19 “Our end users are patients and families. Period.” 16:36 What's the difference between asking patients, “What is the matter with you?” and “What matters to you?” 19:56 How are nonclinician staff included in a patient-centric value system? 25:40 “We can give them the tools, wherever they're coming from.” 29:33 “The bottom line is, these are engagement tools and technologies that we do need to start looking at to help redesign care delivery.” You can learn more at discoverdrd.com and goshadow.org. @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity What is the Patient-Centered Value System, and why should it be the operating system for all health systems moving forward? @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “It's the infrastructure to allow us to redesign care delivery.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “These artificial silos that we have in health care have to be crossed and broken down.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “The patient is the common denominator. We have to follow the patient.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity Why does the disjointed patient experience affect a patient's trust in their care delivery? @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity What are the steps to creating a patient-centric system? @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “The challenge is to view all care through the eyes of patients and families.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “Our end users are patients and families. Period.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity What's the difference between asking patients, “What is the matter with you?” and “What matters to you?” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity How are nonclinician staff included in a patient-centric value system? @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “We can give them the tools, wherever they're coming from.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity “The bottom line is, these are engagement tools and technologies that we do need to start looking at to help redesign care delivery.” @drtonydigioia of @UPMC discusses #PCVS on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #patientcentric #patientcentricity

Professor of Robotics Illah Reza Nourbakhsh from The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University explaines how we would share our world with robots, and how our society could change as we incorporate a race of stronger, smarter and more connected intelligences. 0:50 — There is story goes about Lake Erie 2:42 — New mediocracy 4:24 — How robots guess what will you order in Mcdonald's and what a car does here 10:06 — Names and termins from philosophical points of view 10:50 — What recaptcha is 12:38 — Robot Smog 17:36 — Bombat Robo 19:43 — Dehumanizing robots 20:37 — Experiment with robots that was done in New Zeland 22:29 — Self-driving car 30:22 — Increased productivity 35:01 — Importancy of time 41:34 — Recommending books The lecture took place at Strelka Institute in 2013. To watch Q&A session with Nourbakhsh you can on Strelka Institute YouTube-chanell: https://stre.lk/ADLT

Dr. Ishan Misra is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research where he works on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. His main research interest is reducing the need for human supervision, and indeed, human knowledge in visual learning systems. He finished his PhD at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. He has done stints at Microsoft Research, INRIA and Yale. His bachelors is in computer science where he achieved the highest GPA in his cohort. Ishan is fast becoming a prolific scientist, already with more than 3000 citations under his belt and co-authoring with Yann LeCun; the godfather of deep learning. Today though we will be focusing an exciting cluster of recent papers around unsupervised representation learning for computer vision released from FAIR. These are; DINO: Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers, BARLOW TWINS: Self-Supervised Learning via Redundancy Reduction and PAWS: Semi-Supervised Learning of Visual Features by Non-Parametrically Predicting View Assignments with Support Samples. All of these papers are hot off the press, just being officially released in the last month or so. Many of you will remember PIRL: Self-Supervised Learning of Pretext-Invariant Representations which Ishan was the primary author of in 2019. References; Shuffle and Learn - https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08561 DepthContrast - https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02691 DINO - https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14294 Barlow Twins - https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03230 SwAV - https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09882 PIRL - https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01991 AVID - https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12943 (best paper candidate at CVPR'21 (just announced over the weekend) - http://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/node/290) Alexei (Alyosha) Efros http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tmalisie/projects/nips09/ Exemplar networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6909 The bitter lesson - Rich Sutton http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html Machine Teaching: A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06742 POET https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01753.pdf

Machines are beginning to replace human judgement and other cognitive tasks, not just physical labour, seeing millions of unemployed in coming decades. What will become of the unemployed masses? Idleness and depression? Or bountiful travel and leisure? And how will we distribute welfare equally? Featured:Dikai Liu, Director, Robotics Institute, UTSBenjamin Hunnicutt, historian, professor of work and leisure, Iowa UniversityProducer/Presenter: Julia Carr-CatzelMusic: Epidemic sound

Next-level technologies hold the potential to enhance safety and efficiency in the transportation industry, but it takes a lot of work behind the scenes to advance these ideas from concept to reality. In many cases, that process involves industrialists, entrepreneurs and leading university researchers coming together to rethink common practices and put emerging technologies to the test. At the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, principal project scientist Christoph Mertz cultivates predictive road maintenance technology to ease the pain of potholes and basic infrastructure roadblocks. Meanwhile, at the University of Michigan, Huei Peng leads the MCity consortium to support the development of automated and connected vehicle technology. Tune in to find out how they are paving the way for the technologies of the future. For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-is-university-research-advancing-transportation-technology/ Follow the RoadSigns: Twitter: @ttroadsigns LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast Instagram: @roadsignspodcast Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/ For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab leader Illah Nourbakhsh, & Raqueeb Bey, exec. dir. of Black Urban Gardeners & Farmers of Pittsburgh  join host & Endowments Pres. Grant Oliphant as they dive into the fascinating backstory of the new & innovative Center for Shared Prosperity.  One of the great anomalies of modern American society is the disconnect between the intellectual capital, innovation, and wealth creation associated with its leading research universities and the persistent challenges and inequality confronting the communities in which those centers of innovation reside. There is a better way – one in which universities focus their research and problem-solving expertise on those challenges that surrounding communities identify as most urgent. It’s a way that includes deep and long-term partnerships between community representatives, universities and philanthropy. Funded by The Heinz Endowments with its largest-ever single grant and guided by a committee of community leaders, the newly launched Center for Shared Prosperity at Carnegie Mellon University is creating a template for that better way.  Illah is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, the author of “Robot Futures,” and co-author of “AI and Humanity,” both from MIT Press.  In addition to heading Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh, Raqueeb also leads Mama Africa’s Green Scouts, a grassroots organization that works with black youth in underserved communities to encourage awareness of green education, environmental sustainability and social justice. Illah and Raqueeb share what they believe the Center for Shared Prosperity could mean for both the university and surrounding communities, and how other cities across the nation with major research institutions may use the initiative as a guide for systemic change. “I see this as the opportunity for all of us to come together in a genuine, long-term way to make  permanent change in the structure of the system,” says Raqueeb. Illah agrees: “I believe that we can be pioneers for justice together.” “We Can Be” is hosted by Heinz Endowments President Grant Oliphant, and produced by the Endowments, Josh Franzos and Tim Murray. Theme music by Josh Slifkin; incidental music by Giuseppe Capolupa. Guest inquiries can be made to Scott Roller at sroller@heinz.org.

There is enormous data and potential locked within our city infrastructures. Today at noon, we welcome Aaron Morris, CoFounder and CEO of Allvision, to see how his company uses machine learning and computer vision to build smarter cities. Allvision specializes in providing high definition, time based asset inventories for infrastructure, mobility and transportation. With experience from institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, Autodesk, and Bentley Systems and a background rooted strongly in LiDAR, computer vision, and machine learning – the Allvision team has been working on industry leading solutions in reality capture and autonomous systems for over two decades. Whether a city wants to discover how many pedestrians its sidewalks can accommodate, determine the best curb layout for maximum parking turnover, or simply find all of their signs, Allvision can unlock the data.

What Happens when the GPS goes Out? Sanjiv Singh is CEO of Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburg based company that is creating a future where autonomous flight is commonplace and safe.  Near Earth’s technology allows aircraft to autonomously take-off, fly, and land safely, with or without GPS. Their solutions enable aerial mobility and inspection applications for partners in the commercial and defense sectors. Sanjiv leads the technical and business strategy for the company. He brings 25 years of experience in autonomous ground and air vehicles operating in extreme environments. Key area of his expertise are in perception and planning for air and ground vehicles. In addition, he specializes in the coordination of human and robotic teams. Sanjiv obtained his PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 1995 and has since been on the faculty at the Robotics Institute. Sanjiv is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Field Robotics.  In this edition of the Drone Radio Show, Sanjiv talks about Near Earth Autonomy, the company’s ground breaking technology and the future of robotic flight.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website.   Download the first chapters of the book Shift: From Product to People at: https://bit.ly/shift_book   About Peter and Michael Pete Oliver-Krueger is an entrepreneur, speaker, trainer, and consultant for Agile, Lean Startup, and Teal management. He specializes in the psychology of building product development teams, following the principle that “how one introduces techniques is more important than which techniques.” He works closely with startups and enterprise organizations exploring the question, “What should we build?” He started his career as an engineer at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, helped launch the first accredited online university, and has lead Agile transformations for USA Today, TD Ameritrade, the IRS, and more. He is also co-organizer for the DC Lean Startup Circle. You can link with Pete Oliver-Krueger on LinkedIn and connect with Pete Oliver-Krueger on Twitter.    Michael Dougherty, “Agile Mike” has over 25 years of experience with software development and product leadership. He is published under the “Built for Success” column in CIO.com magazine and held the position of Vice President in the Agile Leadership Network.  Michael has taught multiple SAFe courses for over the past three years to over 400 people. He is certified SAFe SPC5, AWS Cloud Architect, ICP-CAT (Coaching Agile Transitions), AHF (Agility Health Facilitator), Scrum CSP, and PMP. You can link with Michael Dougherty on LinkedIn and connect with Michael Dougherty on Twitter. 

Dr Sanjiv Singh is a research professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and the CEO of Near Earth Autonomy. Sanjiv has more than 30 years of research experience in the field of autonomous vehicles and has spun-out multiple companies from his university research. His current venture, Near Earth Autonomy, develops technology that allows aircraft to autonomously take-off, fly, and land safely, with or without GPS. Near Earth's goal is to develop complete autonomous solutions that improve efficiency, performance, and safety for aircraft ranging from small drones up to full-size helicopters. The team at Near Earth was awarded the 2018 Howard Hughes Award, which recognises outstanding improvements in fundamental helicopter technology, and was also a 2017 finalist for the Collier Trophy, one of the most important aviation awards worldwide. In this episode of the Aerospace Engineering Podcast, Sanjiv and I talk about: his background as a researcher in the field of robotics and autonomy the fundamental concepts of autonomy the hardware and software that make it work the successful helicopter technology demonstrator Near Earth Autonomy has developed and the future of autonomous vehicles This episode of the Aerospace Engineering Podcast is brought to you by my patrons on Patreon. Patreon is a way for me to receive regular donations from listeners whenever I release a new episode, and with the help of these generous donors I have been able to pay for much of the expenses, hosting and travels costs that accrue in the production of this podcast. If you would like to support the podcast as a patron, then head over to my Patreon page. There are multiple levels of support, but anything from $1 an episode is highly appreciated. Thank you for your support! Selected Links from the Episode Near Earth Autonomy webpage, Twitter & YouTube Dr Sanjiv Singh's TEDx talk Near Earth collaborates with Kaman | Vertical Public perception of autonmous flying | WIRED Lidar vs cameras vs radar | WIRED

In this episode: We meet Drs. Robert Gregg and Toby Elery, who are part of a team that has designed an improved robotic prosthesis, produced using a motor originally designed for use on the International Space Station (ISS). Dr. Gregg is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, and then subsequent masters and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the University of Michigan as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Robotics Institute, in fall 2019. Dr. Elery is a mechanical engineer and researcher based in Dallas, Texas, who earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in the spring of 2020. Up until April of this year, and for nearly six years prior, he was a PhD Graduate Research Assistant at the university. He's worked on a host of robotics projects, has served as a mentor for undergraduate projects, and has also disseminated his research in the field via several publications and presentations. In this conversation, our guests discuss how the idea came about to produce a better robotic prosthesis, why a motor produced for the ISS was chosen for their design, how their prosthesis lessens the burden on wearers, which wearers will benefit from it the most, the testing that has been performed so far, and also explain how the force from the residual limb actually charges the battery while the prosthesis is in use. Describing how an ISS motor was chosen for their design, Elery explains that it was among those with “the highest torque density, which means it can produce a lot of force in a very small package, which was really useful for our application. So, we were able to get a whole lot of torque — a whole lot of force out of it, in a really small volume.” To learn more about the prosthesis designed by Drs. Gregg and Elery, visit https://gregg.engin.umich.edu. Introductory and closing music: Paint the Sky by Hans Atom © copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/hansatom/50718 Ft: Miss Judged

During this episode, we discuss with Bob Thibadeau his work on lies and implications for the Information Age. *Correction: During the discussion, Dr. Thibadeau referred to neocortical computation as "bimodal" (e.g., vision and audition) but the more correct term is "intermodal" (the cognitive integration of all senses and actions). Interested listeners may engage with his "Whole of Society" effort at The Internet Court of Lies. Click here for full show notes & resources Professor Bob Thibadeau has been affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science since 1979. His expertise is in Cognitive Science, AI, and Machine Learning. Prof Thibadeau is one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. And, he is author of the book "How to Get Your Lies Back: The Internet Court of Lies" and "Fiat Lies are Genocide on the Human Race," which is a brief summary available on Medium.com. IPA is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the role of information activities, such as influence and cognitive security, within the national security sector and helping to bridge the divide between operations and research. Its goal is to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and practitioners and policymakers with an interest in this domain. For more information, please contact us at communications@information-professionals.org. Or, you can connect directly with The Cognitive Crucible podcast host, John Bicknell on LinkedIn. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, 1) IPA earns from qualifying purchases, 2) IPA gets commissions for purchases made through links in this post.

As co-founder and president of RoadBotics, Benjamin Schmidt, PhD leads a dynamic team in the rapidly growing “GovTech” space. RoadBotics offers artificial intelligence-based road infrastructure assessments for governments around the world. By leveraging standard smartphone camera and app technology, which is paired with cloud access, they are able to deliver their product in an accessible and easy-to-use format. Most governments struggle to maintain their road networks because the process is too cumbersome, time consuming, and subjective. The robust imagery, reporting tools, and data generated by RoadBotics allows for objective decision-making and planning by those responsible for infrastructure maintenance and management.Dr. Ben began his career in bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Realizing he had a drive and passion for startups, he worked as a data scientist and chief technology officer for a venture-backed company that focused on energy market forecasting and analytics. He then joined the founding team that launched RoadBotics, which was started at, and later spun out of, Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. In our conversation, Dr. Ben discusses the evolution of the company, the challenges of selling to and servicing the government market, and the importance of quickly testing a concept with a minimally viable product.If you have any questions or if you’d like to chat, you can reach me at my contact info below. The purpose of this podcast is to share ideas, inspire action, and build a stronger small business community here in Pittsburgh. So please say hello, tell me what you think, and let me know how I’m doing. It means a ton!YOU CAN REACH ME AT:Podcast: https://www.proprietorsofpittsburgh.comWebsite: https://www.thestartupshoppe.net/podcastsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/proprietorsofpittsburghpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/proprietorsofpittsburghpodcastLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darinvilanoPhone: 412-336-8247YOU CAN REACH DR. BENJAMIN SCHMIDT AT:Website: https://www.roadbotics.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidtbtInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/roadboticsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/roadboticsTwitter: https://twitter.com/IamBenSchmidt

Robohub Podcast · Introspective Robots In this episode, Lilly interviews Nathan Michael, Professor and Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab at the Robotics Institute within Carnegie Mellon University. They discuss introspection, adaptation, and evolvement in robotics. Michael speaks about topics in state estimation and distributed perception, and other challenges in control, perception, and cognition for both single and multi-robot systems.

July 26, 2020 was the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, so today we are going to explore what has changed over the last three decades, what else needs to be done and look at locally developed technologies to help those with disabilities. Joining us at noon is Paul O’Hanlon, a retired attorney, who has been an advocate for low income housing, and disability issues around city planning and services, public transit and voting. We will also welcome Aaron Steinfeld, an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on human interaction with technology, with an eye towards solutions that help people with diverse abilities.

We talk to Wayne Ma about Apple's attempts to have robots handle the manufacturing process at their factories and why it hasn't worked. Then we speak with Kate Clark about the federal paycheck protection program loan and the startups that took advantage of it. Special guests this episode included David Bourne, a scientist at the Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University and Jonathan Wasserstrum, the CEO of SquareFoot. More reading What Apple Learned From Automation: Humans Are Better After Chaotic Start, Federal Loan Program Helped Startups Avoid ‘Deep Layoffs’

In our increasingly “smart” and connected future, technological advancements will solve various issues facing the agriculture industry––from connectivity dead-zones and data collection to augmenting traditional farming skills and improving crop yield to meet the demand of a growing population. In this episode, we hear from Julian Sanchez, Director of Precision Agriculture at John Deere, about the tools and technology that will transform the efficiency of farming––Kirk Stueve, a farmer, and engineer with Ceres Imaging, a company that uses aerial photography to provide farmers with advanced crop data–– and George Kantor, a researcher and educator at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he and his team are working on autonomous and semi-autonomous farming robots. Make sure to check out other episodes in this series featuring: Irene Petrick, Senior Director of Industrial Innovation in the Internet of Things Group at Intel and Sean Petterson, founder of Strongarm Technologies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NJxFm77wT0 Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )Special Guest: Tonight we are airing Fraser's interview with John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic Technology. John earned his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. While at Carnegie Mellon, John led the build of Scarab, a NASA concept robot for lunar drilling, and the first robot to carry a prototype of NASA's RESOLVE payload. He also founded Carnegie Mellon's Advanced Composites Lab, a research, training, design, and manufacturing lab specializing in high performance, lightweight composites for robotics.   Astrobotic Technology, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2007. Astrobotics is a lunar logistics company that delivers payloads to the Moon by accommodating multiple customers on a single flight. It is a partner with NASA through a Space Act Agreement under the Lunar CATALYST program, and has 22 prior and ongoing NASA contracts. The company has 10 payload delivery deals in place for its first mission and dozens of customer negotiations for upcoming missions.   Additionally, Astrobotic is developing advanced space robotics capabilities such as terrain relative navigation, mobile robotics for lunar surface operations, and reliable computing systems for mission-critical applications. To learn more about Astrobotics and their projects, visit their website at https://www.astrobotic.com/. Regular Guests: Dr. Brian Koberlein ( https://briankoberlein.com/ & @BrianKoberlein ) C.C. Petersen ( http://thespacewriter.com/wp/ & @AstroUniverse ) Michael Rodruck ( https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/ / @MichaelRodruck ) This week's stories: - StarLink update. - SETI at the VLA. - NGC 4546 studied in detail. - Flammable ice.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

On this Seamless Podcast: TechCon Series episode, Darin and Mike talk with Dr. Todd Hylton, the Executive Director of the Contextual Robotics Institute and Professor of Practice in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC San Diego. We talk about autonomous vehicle systems, startups working in the field of novel computing systems, and their application to autonomous vehicle and robotic systems. We speak about his experience as Vice President of Strategy and Research at Brain Corporation and his time as Program Manager at DARPA where he managed a number of projects including the Nano Air Vehicle program, the SyNAPSE program, and the Physical Intelligence program. Dr. Hylton is a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and studied Physics at M.I.T.

Our CVPR 2019 special AI talk features Shumian Xin and Prof. Ioannis Gkioulekas, co-authors of “A Theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-of-Sight Shape Reconstruction”, and winners of the CVPR 2019 Best Paper Award. Shumian is a 2nd-year PhD student and Ioannis is an assistant professor, both from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. They shared the details on the impressive results found from their recent research project, especially the importance of the collaborative experience within the development process, her enthusiasm about computational imagery, and the comparison with LiDAR sensors. View full interview video at Robin.ly: http://bit.ly/2Xju4rZ

Traffic sucks. Luckily, smart people are looking into making cities smarter and reducing congestion.   Rapid Flow Technologies was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University with the goal of introducing new Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies into the marketplace. Rapid Flow was created to commercialize the Surtrac adaptive traffic signal control technology developed in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon.   I spoke with CEO Griffin Schultz, who was brought in to lead business development efforts for the young startup.   Griffin has an MBA from The Wharton School at UPenn and has previously worked with successful tech startups, as the Assistant Deputy Mayor for the City of Philadelphia, and other offices in state and federal government.   Never miss one of our best episodes by subscribing to the newsletter.   Griffin’s Challenge; Read about artificial intelligence.   Books Mentioned Origin by Dan Brown Life 3.0 Being Human in the Age of AI by Max Tegmark The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro   Connect with Griffin Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Website info@rapidflowtech.com   If you liked this interview, check out our episode Kevin Miller where we discuss artificial intelligence disrupting the world of contracts or our episode with Mark DeSantis where we discuss maintaining road infrastructure with cheap sensors and AI.   Underwritten by Piper Creative A digital agency that provides strategy, delivery, and analysis specializing in a few key service offerings. Documentary-as-a-Service (Vlogging 2.0) Instagram Content Production & Account Building Podcast Production, Strategy Consulting, and Guest Acquisition   If you aren’t creating or curating content regularly, your clients and customers might forget you’re open for business. YouTube Instagram Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | PodBay

In this episode, we’re joined by Hanbyul Joo, a PhD student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Han, who is on track to complete his thesis at the end of the year, is working on what is called the “Panoptic Studio,” a multi-dimension motion capture studio with over 500 camera sensors that are used to capture human body behavior and body language. While robotic and other artificially intelligent systems can interact with humans, Han’s work focuses on understanding how humans interact and behave so that we can teach AI-based systems to react to humans more naturally. In our conversation, we discuss his CVPR best student paper award winner “Total Capture: A 3D Deformation Model for Tracking Faces, Hands, and Bodies.” Han also shares a complete overview of the Panoptic studio, and we dig into the creation and performance of the models, and much more. For the complete show notes for this episode, visit https://twimlai.com/talk/180.

Craig Markovitz co-founded Blue Belt Technologies, a spinoff from the Robotics Institute at CMU, in 2003 and thirteen years later was a key member of the deal team that led to a $275,000,000 acquisition. During his years in business, Craig has launched companies, raised capital, and managed operations in businesses spanning from pre revenue and 18 employees to multi-million in revenue and 150 employees.   Today, he is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.     We discuss his experience building a team, his thoughts on fundraising, and touch on the peculiar position of deciding what to do after your company is acquired.   If you liked this interview, check out episode 303 with Luke Skurman where we discuss building a tech company in Pittsburgh, raising a Series A, and the challenges of building a team. Never miss one of our best episodes by subscribing to the newsletter.   Craig’s Challenge; Do something out of your comfort zone.   Connect with Craig LinkedIn Website Underwritten by Piper Creative A digital agency that provides strategy, delivery, and analysis specializing in a few key service offerings. Documentary-as-a-Service (Vlogging 2.0) Instagram Content Production & Account Building Podcast Production, Strategy Consulting, and Guest Acquisition   If you aren’t creating or curating content regularly, your clients and customers might forget you’re open for business. YouTube Instagram Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | PodBay

Dr. Carmel Majidi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. There, he also holds courtesy appointments in the Robotics Institute and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In Carmel’s soft machines lab, they are engineering new types of materials that can be used to make machines and robots soft, flexible, and more lifelike. The goal is for these machines to move more like natural organisms. When not working, Carmel is often out engaging in physical activities including hitting the gym or walking/jogging in nearby parks and along river trails. He also enjoys the arts and travel. Carmel travels frequently for work, and he likes to block off extra time on these trips to to visit museums and cultural landmarks. Carmel received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University as well as at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Over the course of his career, Carmel has received numerous awards and honors, including the Young Faculty Awards from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He has also received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Early Career Faculty Award, as well as the George Tallman Ladd Award and Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean’s Early Career Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, Carmel was named a PopTech Science Fellow in 2013. In our interview Carmel discusses his experiences in life and science.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a software that can sense and track people's actions through walls. Called RF-Pose, the technology uses artificial intelligence (AI) that programs devices to identify and monitor a person's movements like walking, waving, standing, or sitting down. RF-Pose also relies on a radio transmitter that emits waves, which are reflected by people's bodies. Specifically, the researchers conditioned RF-Pose to track people's movements by gathering images of people in motion. Then, the device learned to produce stick figures every time it senses radio signals from a person. While the technology cannot really determine what is happening behind walls, it learned to anticipate a person's movements using data from the images and radio waves. The researchers believe that RF-Pose can greatly contribute to health care as it can be used in monitoring degenerative illnesses like Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. With the help of RF-Pose, doctors can keep tabs on patients' status in terms of the progression of diseases. The technology can also help in keeping track of falls and injuries. Currently, the researchers are planning to conduct a trial of RF-Pose with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. They are also hoping to commercialize the technology in the future. Despite the technology's potential, a research associate from the Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute raised that RF-Pose can breach privacy because it can monitor people without their consent. Because lead researcher Dina Katabi recognized this issue, her team is looking into developing a consent mechanism. This mechanism instructs a person to perform certain movements before enabling RF-Pose to observe the environment.

We’ve all seen robots in popular media doing crazy cool (and sometimes scary) things, but Henny Admoni’s robots are far beyond our childhood Jetson’s robo-maid dreams. Henny’s research focuses on developing intelligent, autonomous robots that help humans on complex tasks like eating a meal or learning a new skill. She is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she works on assistive robotics and human-robot interaction. Learn what the heck that all means (unless you’re a badass woman in STEM that could translate already!) and all about how Henny managed to marry her interest in psychology and robotics into the perfect career path. She’s sharp as a tack and has some great Sci-Fi novel recommendations for you! Onward and upward! Thoughts? Email us: shatteredglasspodcast@gmail.com Music by Anthony LaMarca

On this episode of the podcast, Mark and Melanie delve into the fascinating world of robotics and reinforcement learning. We discuss advances in the field, including how robots are learning to navigate new surroundings and how machine learning is helping us understand the human mind better. Raia Hadsell Raia Hadsell, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, has worked on deep learning and robotics problems for the past 15 years. After completing a PhD at New York University, which featured a self-supervised deep learning vision system for a mobile robot, her research continued at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and SRI International, and in early 2014 she joined DeepMind in London to develop artificial general intelligence. Her current research focuses on the challenge of interactive learning for AI agents and robots, including subjects such as neural memory for real world navigation and lifelong learning. Cool things of the week AI Adventures How to Make a Data Science Project with Kaggle site Predict your future costs with Google Cloud Billing cost forecast blog and site Kaggle Competition Winning Solutions site Google Cloud Platform Podcast Episode 84: Kaggle with Wendy Kan podcast Introducing Jib — build Java Docker images better blog Google Container Tools site Interview Raia Hadsell site Learning to Navigate Cities Without a Map research paper and blog Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent | MERLIN research paper Nature: Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in AI research paper DeepMind has trained an AI to unlock the mysteries of your brain site Navigating with grid-like representations in artificial agents blog DeepMind site and blog Boston Dynamics site Google Brain Robotics site Transylvanian Machine Learning Summer School site IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures research paper Edward Mozer - Grid Cells and the Brain’s Spatial Mapping System video The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 site TensorFlow site Question of the week How do you connect a Google Cloud Source repository to an existing Git repository? site and blog Where can you find us next? We’ll both be at Cloud NEXT! Mark will be talking about Agones blog Melanie will speak at PyCon Russia July 22nd

How can robotics help Bruce build the most effective Batsuit? Could tactile sensing help level-up the Batsuit? Find out on this week's episode of School of Batman! Following on from last week's episode on how materials science could help Bruce create a Batsuit inspired by nature, we look to robotics this week to build a cutting edge Batsuit using tactile sensing. Our guest this week is Yaser Sheikh, an Associate Professor within the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. You can find more on Yaser's research here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yaser/. __________________ Impact Moderato by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100618 Artist: incompetech.com/ Cool Vibes - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100863 Artist: incompetech.com/ Mechanolith by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100879 Artist: incompetech.com/

Ask anyone what extraordinary powers they'd love to have, and you're sure to hear “be able to fly.” We've kind of scratched that itch with airplanes. But have we gone as far as we can go, or are better flying machines in our future? And whatever happened to our collective dream of flying cars?  We look at the evolution - and the future - of flight. Animals and insects have taught us a lot about the mechanics of becoming airborne. But surprises remain. For example, bats may flit around eccentrically, but they are actually more efficient fliers than birds.   Meanwhile, new technology may change aviation when self-healing material repairs structural cracks in mid-flight.  And a scientist who worked on flying cars for DARPA says he's now working on the next best thing.  Guests:                                                     Merlin Tuttle – Ecologist and founder of Bat Conservation International. Executive director of Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation and author of The Secret Life of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Animals. Join his effort and browse his stunning photography at http://www.merlintuttle.com/ David Alexander - Ecologist, evolutionary biologist, the University of Kansas, author of On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight  Duncan Wass - Professor of chemistry, University of Bristol, U.K.  Sanjiv Singh - Research professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ENCORE Ask anyone what extraordinary powers they’d love to have, and you’re sure to hear “be able to fly.”  We’ve kind of scratched that itch with airplanes.  But have we gone as far as we can go, or are better flying machines in our future?  And whatever happened to our collective dream of flying cars?   We look at the evolution - and the future - of flight. Animals and insects have taught us a lot about the mechanics of becoming airborne.  But surprises remain.  For example, bats may flit around eccentrically, but they are actually more efficient fliers than birds.    Meanwhile, new technology may change aviation when self-healing material repairs structural cracks in mid-flight.   And a scientist who worked on flying cars for DARPA says he’s now working on the next best thing.  Guests:                                                      Merlin Tuttle – Ecologist and founder of Bat Conservation International. Executive director of Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation and author of The Secret Life of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Animals. Join his effort and browse his stunning photography at http://www.merlintuttle.com/ David Alexander - Ecologist, evolutionary biologist, the University of Kansas, author of On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight  Duncan Wass - Professor of chemistry, University of Bristol, U.K.  Sanjiv Singh - Research professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

This week on IAQ Radio we talk to some of the staff and students at the Carnegie Mellon Universities CREATE Lab. The CREATE Lab came to our attention when a friend asked if we would like to try out the Speck IAQ Monitor. Radio Joe has had the monitor on his desk for a month now and it's time to discuss the invention with some members of the team that helped pull together the venture. M. Beatrice Dias (Bea) was born and raised in Sri Lanka and went on to earn her undergraduate degree from Hamilton College in Clinton New York. Following college, she worked in the private sector for two years before moving to Pittsburgh to complete her Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Her postdoctoral field research focused on evaluating the impact of technology in under-served communities across the globe. Bea currently serves as a Project Director for the CREATE Lab at CMU. In this capacity she works with a variety of communities to explore how technology can serve as a tool for empowerment. Sara Longo, a native Pittsburgher, earned a Biology degree and French minor from Allegheny College. She then spent two years in clinical smoking cessation research at the University of Pittsburgh while working as a TSS for the Watson Institute. After leaving her clinical work, she took her career in a new direction by co-founding the social sharing app, Share Closet, and igniting her passion for empowerment through technology. She now carries that passion through to her volunteer work at ACEing Autism and to her career as the Operations Manager for Speck, where she works to empower people to breathe easier. Mike Taylor is a PhD Candidate at the CREATE Lab, part of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. His research interests include methods and calibration for low-cost sensors, machine learning, and air quality.LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeWorld in an organization, founded by Dias, that develops technology to help serve developing communities.

Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeWorld in an organization, founded by Dias, that develops technology to help serve developing communities. This interview focuses on a device that helps the blind learn to write. 

Robotics in the GCC seem to be a hot topic these days, especially after our neighbors in Dubai announced the debut of some robo-cops...not the 90s classic type sadly. Qatar, not to be outdone, is also fostering a domestic robotics industry at Education City, the location of today's podcast. Tune in to learn about how one Texas A&M alum is fostering its growth and got inspired by Hollywood.   Find more information about today's show over at our guest's website: http://www.qrid-robotics.com/about_qrid.

A new tracking and avoidance system, drones that assist firefighters, a Phantom firmware rollback, drone waiters that bring your meal, a personal No Fly Zone, shooting down those pesky drones, Qualcomm buys KMel Robotics, and California seeks to regulate drones below 400 feet. News PrecisionHawk Announces UAV Tracking and Avoidance System PrecisionHawk released an automated traffic control system for UAVs said to aid with the integration of UAVs into the National Airspace (NAS). The “Low Altitude Tracking and Avoidance System” (LATAS) uses global cellular networks on speeds as low as 2G. to provide real-time flight planning, tracking and avoidance for UAVs. LATAS is small (3x2x1in) and light and was developed to be plug and play or integrated into a UAV's circuit during manufacturing. Micro-flyer drone could help a robot to fight fires on ships Last November, the US Office of Naval Research conducted a demonstration of its Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) along with an autonomous quadcopter drone. The robot/drone combination is intended to assist firefighters aboard naval vessels. This is under the Office of Naval Research's Damage Control Technologies for the 21st Century (DC-21) project. The quadcopter comes from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and Sensible Machines. This Spherical Rescue Drone Is Straight Out of Star Wars Flyability has introduced what it calls “the world's first collision-proof drone.” The “Gimball” search and rescue drone is spherical and bounces off obstacles to keep flying. It has a coaxial twin rotor design inside a rotating protective carbon fiber frame. In Crash-proof UAV takes out US$1 million Drones For Good Competition we learn that the Flyability Gimball took first place in the Drones For Good contest. Unexpected issues force drone maker DJI to roll back 'White House' update DJI has rolled back the geofencing firmware update for the Phantom — also known as the "White House patch" — because there have been reports of "unanticipated flight behavior." Drone waiters to serve patrons in Singapore restaurants Infinium Robotics specializes “in providing autonomous UAV solutions for commercial applications.” That includes food delivery by drone in some Singapore restaurants. The rotors are completely enclosed to avoid injury and the UAVs utilize sense and avoid technology. Singapore currently has a shortage of workers in the food industry so this is covering a real need. NoFlyZone Lets You Establish A No-Fly Zone Over Your Property NoFlyZone creates a GeoFence around your home after you register your property. Currently,  the service works with UAS manufacturers DroneDeploy, YUNEEC, HEXO+, PixiePath, RCFlyMaps. EHANG, and Horizon Hobby. Oklahoma bill would allow property owners to shoot down drones without civil liability The Oklahoma State Senate Judiciary Committee passed Senate Bill 492, giving property owners the right to shoot down drones without fear of civil liability. Backers say that drones are increasingly being used by cattle thieves. This bill would protect property owners should they be sued by thieves over a shot down drone. Qualcomm Buys Aerial Drone Startup with Advanced Control Technology Chipmaker Qualcomm has acquired startup KMel Robotics, which specializes in multi-rotor drones. Qualcomm isn't providing any details other than to point to the KMel Robotics website: “We are extremely excited to become part of the Qualcomm team and look forward to bringing aerial robotics to the next level together.” KMel Robotics has produced videos demonstrating impressive flight coordination: Flying Robot Dance unveiled at CES 2014. Flying Robot Rockstars where hexacopters create music. Amazing in Motion demonstrates swarming quadcopters. California's No Drone Zones California bill SB142 bans trespassing by drones flying below 400 feet. Mentioned UOIT Controls The Weather At Its Drone Testing Centre

Dr. Stephen F. Smith Research professor in the Robotics Institute and Director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics LaboratoryCarnegie Mellon University   Smart Traffic Signals Traffic congestion in United States metropolitan areas is an increasing problem, now estimated to cost travelers $121 billion annually in lost time and fuel consumption, and to release 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. In this talk, Dr. Stephen F. Smith will describe recent research aimed at addressing this problem through smart traffic signals. A smart traffic signal perceives approaching traffic in real time and dynamically allocates green light time to move all current traffic through the intersection as efficiently as possible. Signal plans are coordinated with neighboring smart signals. Smith will summarize how this technology works, present results obtained from an initial experimental deployment of smart traffic signals in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and discuss future opportunities for smart signal systems to exploit emerging connected vehicle technology (which will shortly enable direct communication between traffic signals and vehicles) to enhance the safety and mobility of urban travelers. Smith is a research professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory. Smith's research focuses on the theory and practice of next-generation technologies for planning, scheduling, coordination, and optimization. For the past several years, he has directed the SURTRAC (Smart URban TRAffic Control) adaptive traffic signal control project, which has developed a decentralized system for real-time optimization of urban traffic flows. Current research with SURTRAC focuses on optimization of traffic flows involving passenger vehicles, buses, pedestrians, and bicyclists, and on integration of smart signal control with connected vehicle technology.   Recorded Monday, February 2, 2015 at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA

Join Lab Out Loud this week as hosts Brian Bartel and Dale Basler talk to Illah Nourbakhsh, author of Robot Futures.  As Professor of Robotics at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Illah has been building and thinking about robotics for most of his life.  Illah joins Lab Out Loud to talk about his book, our potential future with robots and how students should be inspired to learn with purpose. Show notes at: Show notes at: http://laboutloud.com/?p=2735

Illah Reza Nourbakhsh The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. They will be fully connected to the digital world, far better at carrying out online tasks than we are. In his new book Robot Futures, the Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings. Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of "gaze tracking"; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. In Robot Futures, Nourbakhsh follows each glimpse into the robotic future with an examination of the underlying technology and an exploration of the social consequences of the scenario. Nourbakhsh is the director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab and head of the Robotics Masters Program in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research projects explore community-based robotics, including educational and social robotics and ways to use robotic technology to empower individuals and communities. His other past projects include serving as a robotics group leader at NASA/Ames Research Center as well as the founder and chief scientist of Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc., which was acquired by Witness Systems, Inc. Nourbakhsh earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate in computer science at Stanford University and has been a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon since 1997. Recorded at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA on September 9, 2013.

Illah Reza Nourbakhsh This is the Q&A portion of Dr. Nourbakhsh's presentation on 'Robot Futures'. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks to artificial intelligence. They will be fully connected to the digital world, far better at carrying out online tasks than we are. In his new book Robot Futures, the Illah Reza Nourbakhsh considers how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as it incorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings. Nourbakhsh imagines a future that includes adbots offering interactive custom messaging; robotic flying toys that operate by means of "gaze tracking"; robot-enabled multimodal, multicontinental telepresence; and even a way that nanorobots could allow us to assume different physical forms. In Robot Futures, Nourbakhsh follows each glimpse into the robotic future with an examination of the underlying technology and an exploration of the social consequences of the scenario. Nourbakhsh is the director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab and head of the Robotics Masters Program in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research projects explore community-based robotics, including educational and social robotics and ways to use robotic technology to empower individuals and communities. His other past projects include serving as a robotics group leader at NASA/Ames Research Center as well as the founder and chief scientist of Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc., which was acquired by Witness Systems, Inc. Nourbakhsh earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate in computer science at Stanford University and has been a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon since 1997. Recorded at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA on September 9, 2013.

In this edition of Alphachat's painfully regular podcast Cardiff Garcia and Izabella Kaminska are joined by Illah Nourbakhsh, Professor of Robotics at The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss a very robot future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A dog and a robotic snake may very well save the day

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Cameron Riviere, PhD, who is an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Riviere discusses his research in control systems and robotic devices, and [...]