Podcast appearances and mentions of terry fong

The 1980s promised robotic servants were in reach. They'd clean up our houses. Bring us drinks. Usher in an era of leisure. We didn't get robot butlers. But if we look around, we'll find an army of robotic servants already automating away domestic drudgery. Richard Rowland recounts the extent to which Androbot over-promised on its ability to build a robot servant. 40 years later, we still don't have robot maids. Monroe Kennedy III walks us through the complexities of seemingly simple tasks. To make things more difficult, each attempt to build a robot had to build the hardware AND write the code from scratch. Keenan Wyrobek explains that's why he helped write and share the Robot Operating System (ROS). Leila Takayama describes how beneficial ROS was to the field of robotics. And Terry Fong shares how NASA is using ROS to build the robots that explore our solar system.If you want to read up on some of our research on domestic robots, you can check out all our bonus material over at redhat.com/commandlineheroes. Follow along with the episode transcript.

To really understand the geology of the Moon, you need to dig. NASA’s very first lunar rover, VIPER, is designed to do just that. NASA EDGE talked to Terry Fong about how VIPER will drill up to a meter below the lunar surface in various regions to discover both in situ resources for exploration and scientific opportunities.

To really understand the geology of the Moon, you need to dig. NASA’s very first lunar rover, VIPER, is designed to do just that.

To really understand the geology of the Moon, you need to dig. NASA’s very first lunar rover, VIPER, is designed to do just that.

For episode 76, we're re-posting episode 24, a conversation with Terry Fong, senior scientist for autonomous systems and lead for the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

Watch Dr. Terry Fong from NASA Ames Research Center discuss Human/Robotics Collaborations and Interactions at the Keck Institute for Space Studies workshop Space Science Opportunities Augmented by Exploration Telepresence October 3, 2016.

In this 51st episode we conclude our 2-part special on 50 years of robotics. For the occasion we speak with 12 scientists about the most remarkable developments in their field of robotics over the last 50 years and their prediction for next half-century. Today’s episode features Jean-Christophe Zufferey on flying robots, Dan Kara on the robotics market, Kristinn Thórisson on AI, Andrea Thomaz on human robot interactions, Terry Fong on space robotics and Richard Jones on nano robots.

In this episode we interview Terry Fong about peer-to-peer human-robot interactions in a team including a seam-welding humanoid robot, an inspection space rover, a remote support crew and two astronauts.