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 purposes 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 Medication 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 group, 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 trade. 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 mushy robotics, robotic prostheses, and taking inspiration from nature.

Simon Wanstall is a PhD pupil on the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, engaged on developments in mushy robotic prosthetics. His analysis pursuits embody mushy robotics, bioinspired design and healthcare gadgets. Simon’s present undertaking is to develop mushy sensors in order that robotic prostheses can really feel the world round them. To be able to develop his abilities on this space, Simon can also 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 automobiles, industrial robots, and multi-robot methods.

Amanda Prorok is Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics within the Division of Pc Science and Know-how at Cambridge College, and a Fellow of Pembroke Faculty. She is desirous about 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, mushy 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 business operations. Dr Sareh holds a PhD from the College of Bristol, 2012, and served as an impression 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 growth, testing and verification, and autonomous cellular 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 method to model-based Software program Engineering enhances present observe 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

What’s your favorite fictional robotic?

What’s your recommendation for a robotics profession?

What’s your favorite machine or software?

Might you be buddies with a robotic?

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