Episode 24 – Gopal Ramchurn
Claire chatted to Gopal Ramchurn from the College of Southampton about synthetic intelligence, autonomous methods and renewable power.
Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn is a Professor of Synthetic Intelligence, Turing Fellow, and Fellow of the Establishment of Engineering and Know-how. He’s the Director of the UKRI Reliable Autonomous Techniques hub and Co-Director of the Shell-Southampton Centre for Maritime Futures. He’s additionally a Co-CEO of Empati Ltd, an AI startup engaged on decentralised inexperienced hydrogen applied sciences. His analysis is concerning the design of Accountable Synthetic Intelligence for socio-technical functions together with power methods and catastrophe administration.
Episode 25 – Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Claire chatted to Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena from Imperial Faculty London about medical robotics, robotic surgical procedure, and translational analysis.
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena is Professor of Medical Robotics within the Division of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial Faculty, the place he leads the Mechatronics in Drugs Laboratory and the Utilized Mechanics Division. He has been the Engineering Co-Director of the Hamlyn Centre, which is a part of the Institute of World Well being Innovation, since July 2020. He’s a founding member and nice advocate of the Imperial Faculty Robotics Discussion board, now the primary level of contact for roboticists at Imperial Faculty.
Episode 26 – Séverin Lemaignan
Claire chatted to Séverin Lemaignan from PAL Robotics all about social robots, behaviour, and robot-assisted human-human interactions.
Séverin Lemaignan is Senior Scientist at Barcelona-based PAL Robotics. He leads the Social Intelligence crew, answerable for designing and growing the socio-cognitive capabilities of robots like PAL TIAGo and PAL ARI. He obtained his PhD in Cognitive Robotics in 2012 from the CNRS/LAAS and the Technical College of Munich, and labored at Bristol Robotics Lab as Affiliate Professor in Social Robotics, earlier than transferring to business. His analysis primarily issues socio-cognitive human-robot interplay, child-robot interplay and human-in-the-loop machine studying for social robots.
Episode 27 – Simon Wanstall
Claire chatted to Simon Wanstall from the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics all about delicate robotics, robotic prostheses, and taking inspiration from nature.
Simon Wanstall is a PhD scholar on the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, engaged on developments in delicate robotic prosthetics. His analysis pursuits embody delicate robotics, bioinspired design and healthcare units. Simon’s present venture is to develop delicate sensors in order that robotic prostheses can really feel the world round them. With the intention to develop his expertise on this space, Simon can be endeavor an industrial placement with Touchlab, a robotics firm specialising in sensors.
Episode 28 – Amanda Prorok
Claire chatted to Amanda Prorok from the College of Cambridge all about self-driving vehicles, industrial robots, and multi-robot methods.
Amanda Prorok is Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics within the Division of Laptop Science and Know-how at Cambridge College, and a Fellow of Pembroke Faculty. She is taken with discovering sensible strategies for laborious coordination issues that come up in multi-robot and multi-agent methods.
Episode 29 – Sina Sareh
Claire chatted to Sina Sareh from the Royal Faculty of Artwork all about industrial inspection, delicate robotics, and robotic grippers.
Sina Sareh is the Tutorial Chief in Robotics at Royal Faculty of Artwork. He’s presently a Reader (Affiliate Professor) in Robotics and Design Intelligence at RCA, and a Fellow of EPSRC, whose analysis develops technological options to issues of human security, entry and efficiency concerned in a spread of commercial operations. Dr Sareh holds a PhD from the College of Bristol, 2012, and served as an affect assessor of Sub-panel 12: Engineering within the evaluation section of the Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
Episode 30 – Ana Cavalcanti
Claire chatted to Ana Cavalcanti from the College of York all about software program improvement, testing and verification, and autonomous cell robots.
Ana Cavalcanti is a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Rising Applied sciences. She is the chief of the RoboStar centre of excellence on Software program Engineering for Robotics. The RoboStar strategy to model-based Software program Engineering enhances present follow of design and verification of robotic methods, masking simulation, testing, and proof. It’s sensible, supported by instruments, and but mathematically rigorous.
Bonus winter treats
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What’s your recommendation for a robotics profession?
What’s your favorite machine or device?
Might you be mates with a robotic?
A day within the life
EPSRC UK-RAS Robotic Speak Podcast
Every episode, Dr Claire Asher chats with robotics scientists from throughout the UK to learn how their cutting-edge analysis is influencing the longer term.
EPSRC UK-RAS Robotic Speak Podcast
Every episode, Dr Claire Asher chats with robotics scientists from throughout the UK to learn how their cutting-edge analysis is influencing the longer term.
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
was awared his PhD in swarm robotics on the Bristol Robotics Lab in 2020. He now fosters the tradition of “scientific agitation” to interact in two-way conversations between researchers and society.
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
was awared his PhD in swarm robotics on the Bristol Robotics Lab in 2020. He now fosters the tradition of “scientific agitation” to interact in two-way conversations between researchers and society.
