Wevolver Robots in Depth

Achim  talks about rescue robotics and how he is working with integrating sensors that can work and be useful in this challenging application like gas sensors. 

Achim got in to robotics from working in physics when the team hid did his PhD worked on gas sensors and he saw an opportunity to contribute based on his background in physics.

He also talks about a strong personal reason for developing gas sensors as a family member was kill...

Cristina talks about the impact off the ever growing set of tasks that robots can perform and that they can start taking taking decisions like humans do. 

In 2013 she organized events in Finland during European robotics week and found that many people was very interested but that there was also a big lack of knowledge.

She calls of more visions on how we can use robotics to address the challenges society face today. She is especially...

Michael talks about his work in computer vision for field use in agriculture and recycling. 

He started out in computer vision in the agriculture space doing machine vision and 3D reconstruction of plants. He then moved to the Danish Technological Institute when they expanded their work on machine vision for field use in agriculture.

Michael worked with a fusion of sensors like stereo vision, thermography, radar, lidar and high frame...

Nicole  talks about game theory and how she feels that it is her way to understand the world around her. 

Nicole talks about game theory, a way to understand how intelligent agents, humans or machines, interact and optimize their outcome in a particular context.

Nicole discusses how this process can be used to create user interactions that are understandable and can be used efficiently.

We also hear about how dynamic games apply to ro...

Gabriel Skantze talks about how he works with human robot communication, and about how the social robot revolution makes it necessary to communicate with humans in a human ways through speech and facial expressions. This is necessary as we expand the number of people that interact with robots as well as the types of interaction.

Gabriel gives us more insight into the many challenges of implementing spoken communication for co-bots, ...

Lars Dalgaard shares his experiences developing robots in many different contexts.

We hear about Lars’ early work with large mobile robotics in a commercial nursery garden handling the transfer of plants from the greenhouse to the field.

He also speaks about the Hydra project a self re-configuring modular robotics project that developed several different modular robotics systems including the Atron system.

Lars felt that there was a p...

Harri talks about AI and how he aims to mimic human decision making with algorithms.

Harri has done a lot of AI for computer games to create opponents that are entertaining to play against. It is easy to develop a very bad or a very good opponent, but designing an opponent that behaves like a human, is entertaining to play against and that you can beat is quite hard. He talks about how AI in computer games is a very important story ...

Christian talks about AI and wanting to understand intelligence enough to recreate it.

Christian discusses building systems that can interact with humans beyond regular computer interfaces.

He started working with computers early, too early for advanced AI. He studied broadly, including philosophy, ethics as well as synthetic and biological neural networks.

Christian has found a lot of inspiration in the old papers by Alan Turing and ...

Federico talks about AI and how the computer decides what to do and when to do it.

Federico finds many interesting research problems combining AI and robotics. Being out in the real world challenges the AI algorithms and makes real physical tasks possible.

Federico talks about working on AI and service robotics. In this area he has worked on planning, especially focusing on why a particular goal is the one that the robot should work ...

Stefano talks about how he leads the Robotics and Mechatronics lab at University of Twente. The lab focuses on inspection and maintenance robotics, as well as medical applications.

Stefano got into robotics when he saw the robots in Star Wars, and started out building a robotic arm from scratch, including doing his own PCBs etc.

He also tells us about the robotic peregrine falcon that has been spun out and is now a successful company...

Sebastian tells us all about the ECHORD++ project, and describes how ECHORD++ works with application oriented research bringing together academia, industry and end users to bring robotics to market, under the banner “From lab to market”

We also hear about Public end-user Driven Technological Innovation (PDTI). Currently, two projects are run, one in healthcare and one in urban robotics.

Sebastian shares how he adapts ...

Nicola talks about his long road into robotics and how BlueBotics handles indoor navigation and integrates it in automated guided vehicles (AGV).

Like many, Nicola started out tinkering when he was young, and then got interested in computer science as he wanted to understand it better.

Nicola gives us an overview of indoor navigation and its challenges. He shares a number of interesting projects, including professional cleaning and i...

Søren Peter Johansen from DTI talks about implementing robotics solutions. He talks about how he got into robotics by starting to tinker with any electronics he could get his hands on. He worked in a mechanical workshop and added automation to the machines in the shop. As robots became more and more available, he then included them in his work.

Søren also discusses examples of successful human robot collaboration and how software an...

Hans talks about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing.

He describes how the different technologies that are used for MAM work. He then talks through the opportunities and challenges and what one needs to consider when designing for the Höganäs powder sintering MAM process. He also shares some details about the metal powder they use.

This podcast was recorded in 2016 and is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a...

Sven talks about how he always wanted to be a robotics entrepreneur and how ArtiMinds makes programming robots easier.

Like so many, Sven got interested in robotics early. He found robots exciting as they could make his programs come to life and work outside the computer. They could do so much more than just display graphics on the computer screen.

Sven also decided to become a robot entrepreneur early and worked on becoming a roboti...

Dirk talks about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation.

We hear about how programmers and roboticists can benefit from being part of and contributing to the open source community.

Dirk discusses the development of ROS and how it is being used both in academia and in commercial projects. He also shares his thoughts on the future development of ROS and how it can support advancements in robotics overall.

This podcast is part of the We...

Andrew Graham is Senior Technical Leader at OC Robotics, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of commercial snake-arm robots and software for confined and hazardous environments

Andrew talks about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do things no other system can.

Andrew tells the story about starting OC Robotics as a way to ground his robotics development efforts in a customer need. He felt that makin...

Anouk creates instinctual and behavioral wearables; essentially clothes that can sense, process and react.

She creates dresses that move, including motors and special effects. They don´t follow the normal fashion cycle of becoming irrelevant after six months, since they can be updated and improved.

Anouk is unusual as a Fashion Designer as she doesn’t do catwalks; since her designs are made to interact with – not just being viewed.

Sh...

The EZGripper by SAKE Robotics is a tendon based gripper using Dyneema tendons and aluminum oxide
eyelets to make it durable and able to handle rough environments.

The EZGripper is under-actuated, the fingers stay straight when picking up small objects and wrap around large objects. You can control position and torque allowing you to grip soft or hard objects and to do so gently or firmly.

This podcast is part of the Wevolver network....