Podcasts by Robot Talk
Join us each week as we explore the exciting world of robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous machines. Each episode, Dr Claire Asher — science communicator and robot enthusiast — chats with robotics scientists from across the UK to find out how their cutting-edge research is influencing the future of every aspect of science, technology, and engineering, from the mundane to the extraordinary.
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Episode Sixty-Five: Katarzyna Szopinska from 2023-12-08T12:00
Claire chatted to Katarzyna Szopinska from KUKA all about all about software and hardware for medical robotics.
Katarzyna Szopinska studied medical and mechanical engineering in both Wars...
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Episode Sixty-Four: Rav Chunilal from 2023-12-01T12:00
Claire chatted to Rav Chunilal from Sellafield all about robotics and AI for nuclear decommissioning.
Rav Chunilal is the Head of Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at Sellafield Ltd, the...
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Episode Sixty-Three: Ayse Kucukyilmaz from 2023-11-24T12:00
Claire chatted to Ayse Kucukyilmaz from the
Episode Sixty-Two: Jorvon Moss from 2023-11-17T12:00
Claire chatted to Jorvon (Odd-Jayy) Moss from Digikey about making robots at home, and robot design and aesthetics.
Commonly known as Odd-Jayy, Jorvon Moss is an accomplished Maker best k...
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Episode Sixty-One: Masoumeh Mansouri from 2023-11-10T12:00
Claire chatted to Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri from the University of Birmingham about culturally sensitive robots and planning in complex environments.
Episode Sixty: Carl Strathearn from 2023-11-03T12:00
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Episode Fifty-Nine: Ffion Llewellyn from 2023-10-27T11:00
Claire chatted to Ffion Llewellyn from Oshen about sea-faring robots and ocean sensing.
Ffion Llewellyn graduated from Imperial College London in 2022 with a masters in Aeronautical Engin...
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Episode Fifty-Eight: Lorenzo Jamone from 2023-10-20T11:00
Claire chatted to Lorenzo Jamone from Queen Mary University of London all about robotic hands, dexterity, and the sense of touch.
Episode Fifty-Seven: Kate Devlin from 2023-10-13T11:00
Claire chatted to Kate Devlin from King's College London about the social and ethical implications of robotics and AI.
We touch on a range of different topics from concerns over job losse...
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Episode Fifty-Six: Guillaume Doisy from 2023-10-06T11:00
Claire chatted to Guillaume Doisy from Dexory about autonomous warehouse robots, mobile robotics, and software.
Guillaume Doisy is the current Lead Systems Architect at Listen
Episode Fifty-Five: Sara Adela Abad Guaman from 2023-09-29T11:00
Claire chatted to Sara Adela Abad Guaman from University College London about adaptable robots inspired by nature.
New season of Robot Talk coming soon! from 2023-09-21T08:00
Robot Talk will be back for Season 4 on the 29th September - make sure you're subscribed to be the first to hear the latest episodes.
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Episode Fifty-Four: Robot Talk Live - Robotics and Science Fiction from 2023-06-23T11:00
Robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines have become a necessity for our future world but what are the implications of robots for society and how much influence does science fic...
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Episode Fifty-Three: Robert Richardson from 2023-06-16T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Robert Richardson from the University of Leeds all about 3D printing, robot design, and infrastructure repair.
Episode Fifty-Two: Sara Bernardini from 2023-06-09T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Sara Bernardini from Royal Holloway University of London all about decision-making, reconfigurable robots, and oceanography.
Episode Fifty-One: James Kell from 2023-06-02T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to James Kell from Jacobs Engineering UK all about civil infrastructure, nuclear robotics and jet engine inspection.
Episode Fifty: Elena De Momi from 2023-05-26T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Elena De Momi from the the Polytechnic University of Milan all about surgical robotics, artificial intelligence, and the upcoming ICRA robotics conference in London....
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Episode Forty-Nine: Nick Hawes from 2023-05-19T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Nick Hawes from the University of Oxford all about robot decision-making, long-term autonomy, and artificial intelligence.
Episode Forty-Eight: Georgia Chalvatzaki from 2023-05-12T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Georgia Chalvatzaki from the Technical University of Darmstadt all about mobile assistive robots, learning, and planning.
Check out the trailer for the UK-RA...
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Episode Forty-Seven: Helmut Hauser from 2023-05-05T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Helmut Hauser from the University of Bristol all about soft robotics, sensing, and smart robot bodies.
Check out the video of the swimming trout that Helmut t...
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Episode Forty-Six: Carlotta Berry from 2023-04-28T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Carlotta Berry from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology all about robotics education, science outreach, and increasing participation.
Join us for...
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Episode Forty-Five: Francesco Giorgio-Serchi from 2023-04-21T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Francesco Giorgio-Serchi ...
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Episode Forty-Four: Kat Thiel from 2023-04-14T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Kat Thiel from Manchester Metropolitan University all about collaborative robots, micro-factories, and fashion manufacturing.
Episode Forty-Three: Maitreyee Wairagkar from 2023-03-31T11:00
This week, Claire chatted to Maitreyee Wairagkar from the University of California all about neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, and assistive robotics.
Episode Forty-Two: Thom Kirwan-Evans from 2023-03-24T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Thom Kirwan-Evans from Origami Labs all about computer vision, machine learning and robots in industry.
Thom Kirwan-Evans is a co-founder at Listen
Episode Forty-One: Alessandra Rossi from 2023-03-17T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Alessandra Rossi from the University of Naples all about social robotics, theory of mind, and robots playing football.
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Episode Forty: Edward Timpson from 2023-03-10T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Edward Timpson from QinetiQ all about robots in the military, uncrewed vehicles, and cyber security.
Ed Timpson joined QinetiQ in 2020 after 11 years ...
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Episode Thirty-Nine: Maria Bauza Villalonga from 2023-03-03T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Maria Bauza Villalonga from DeepMind all about robot learning, transferable skills, and general AI.
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Episode Thirty-Eight: Jonathan Aitken from 2023-02-24T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Jonathan Aitken from the University of Sheffield all about manufacturing, sewer inspection, and robots in the real world.
Episode Thirty-Seven: Yang Gao from 2023-02-17T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Listen
Episode Thirty-Six: Ignazio Maria Viola from 2023-02-10T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Ignazio Maria Viola from the University of Edinburgh all about aerodynamics, dandelion-inspired drones, and swarm sensing.
Episode Thirty-Five: Emily S. Cross from 2023-02-03T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Emily S. Cross from the University of Glasgow and Western Sydney University all about neuroscience, social learning, and human-robot interaction.
Episode Thirty-Four: Sabine Hauert from 2023-01-27T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Sabine Hauert from the University of Bristol all about swarm robotics, nanorobots, and environmental monitoring.
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Episode Thirty-Three: Dan Stoyanov from 2023-01-20T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Dan Stoyanov from University College London all about robotic vision, surgical robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Episode Thirty-Two: Mollie Claypool from 2023-01-13T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Mollie Claypool from Automated Architecture all about robot house-building, zero-carbon architecture, and community participation.
Episode Thirty-One: Chris Atkeson from 2023-01-06T12:00
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.
Bonus: A day in the life from 2022-12-23T17:00
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In this clip, UK roboticists describe their...
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Bonus: Could you be friends with a robot? from 2022-12-22T17:00
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In this clip, UK roboticists share their th...
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Bonus: What is your favourite machine or tool? from 2022-12-21T17:00
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In this clip, we hear from UK roboticists a...
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Bonus: What is your advice for a robotics career? from 2022-12-20T17:00
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In this clip, UK roboticists share their ad...
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Bonus: What is your favourite fictional robot? from 2022-12-19T17:00
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In the first clip, we hear from UK robotici...
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Episode Thirty: Ana Cavalcanti from 2022-12-16T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Ana Cavalcanti from the University of York all about software development, testing and verification, and autonomous mobile robots.
This is our last episode be...
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Episode Twenty-Nine: Sina Sareh from 2022-12-09T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Sina Sareh from the Royal College of Art all about industrial inspection, soft robotics, and robotic grippers.
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Episode Twenty-Eight: Amanda Prorok from 2022-12-02T12:00:49
This week, Claire chatted to Amanda Prorok from the University of Cambridge all about self-driving cars, industrial robots, and multi-robot systems.
Our t-shirt competition has now ended ...
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Episode Twenty-Seven: Simon Wanstall from 2022-11-25T12:00
This week, Claire talked to Simon Wanstall from the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics all about soft robotics, robotic prostheses and taking inspiration from nature.
To celebrate the new seas...
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Episode Twenty-Six: Séverin Lemaignan from 2022-11-18T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Séverin Lemaignan from PAL Robotics all about social robots, behaviour, and robot-assisted human-human interactions.
To celebrate the new season of Robot Talk...
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Episode Twenty-Five: Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena from 2022-11-11T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena from Imperial College London about medical robotics, robotic surgery, and translational research.
To celebrate the new season of ...
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Episode Twenty-Four: Gopal Ramchurn from 2022-11-04T12:00
This week, Claire chatted to Gopal Ramchurn from the University of Southampton about artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and renewable energy.
To celebrate the new season of Robo...
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Episode Twenty-Three: Mickey Li from 2022-10-28T11:00
This week, Claire talked to Mickey Li from the University of Bristol about aerial robotics, building inspection and multi-robot teams.
To celebrate the new season of Robot Talk, we’re run...
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Episode Twenty-Two: Iveta Eimontaite from 2022-10-21T11:00
This week, Claire talked to Dr Iveta Eimontaite from Cranfield University all about psychology, human-robot interaction, and industrial robots.
To celebrate the new season of Robot Talk, ...
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Episode Twenty-One: Sean Katagiri from 2022-10-14T11:03:14
This week, Claire chatted to Sean Katagiri from The National Robotarium all about underwater robots, offshore energy, and other industrial applications of robotics.
To celebrate the new s...
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Episode Twenty: Paul Dominick Baniqued from 2022-10-07T10:40:42
This week, Claire talked to Dr Paul Dominick Baniqued from The University of Manchester all about brain-computer interface technology and rehabilitation robotics.
To celebrate the new sea...
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Episode Nineteen: Roopika Ravikanna from 2022-09-30T13:15:26
In the first episode of the new season, Claire chatted to Roopika Ravikanna from the University of Lincoln all about farm robots, fruit-picking and human-robot interaction.
To celebrate t...
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Episode Eighteen – Robot Talk Live: Robotics in the Home from 2022-06-24T14:14:28
The first robots went into space over 60 years ago and robotics have become a familiar sight in many industrial settings, but it took a bit longer for robots to make their way into our homes. Ro...
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Episode Seventeen – Bioinspired Robots: learning from nature from 2022-06-13T12:00
In many areas of robotics, scientists and engineers are taking inspiration from nature in their designs. Bioinspired robotics now encompasses a huge number of different research fields and appli...
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Episode Sixteen – Disaster Response: robots to the rescue from 2022-04-29T17:12:23
One of the most dangerous and unpredictable Earth environments we can send robots into are disaster zones – sites devastated by natural disasters or conflict — but here they can play some of the...
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Episode Fifteen – Trustworthy Robots: building rapport from 2022-03-25T16:46:44
Robots are becoming a more and more important part of our home and work lives and as we come to rely on them, trust is of paramount importance. Successful teams are founded on trust, and the sam...
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Episode Fourteen – Aerial Robotics: taking flight from 2022-02-25T19:43:06
One of the most familiar types of robot are drones – we’ve seen them replace fireworks at Olympic opening ceremonies and you might have even seen people flying their own. But this is one method ...
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Episode Thirteen – Robot evolution: survival of the fittest from 2022-01-28T18:57:42
Unlike the characteristics of most robots, the adaptations of living organisms weren’t designed - they evolved through natural selection over millions of years. Evolutionary robotics takes inspi...
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Episode Twelve – Manufacturing Robotics: onto the factory floor from 2021-11-26T21:09:56
The manufacturing industry’s need for accuracy and repeatability in repetitive manual tasks made it an early adopter of robotics technology. Now, as machines become more intelligent and more aut...
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Episode Eleven – Self-Driving Cars: behind the wheel from 2021-10-29T15:36:09
In the last decade, autonomous cars have gone from being SciFi fantasy to a commercial reality on our roads, and as with most major technological developments, self-driving cars have been met wi...
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Episode Ten – Robot Swarms: flocking together from 2021-09-24T13:31:25
Welcome to a brand-new season of Robot Talk, hosted by Dr Claire Asher!
In season 1 we talked about many different types of robot, working alone or directly with humans. One thing we didn...
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Episode Nine – Robot Talk Live: Robots into the Wild from 2021-06-25T20:36:15
We often hear about robots working in controlled, predictable environments, like an assembly line or an operating theatre, but as a former field biologist, Claire is most interested in what happ...
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Episode Eight - Soft Robotics: a new kind of robot from 2021-05-28T19:04:03
Throughout the series so far, soft robotics has come up over and over in different areas, from medicine to agriculture. In this episode, I’ll be chatting to three roboticists working on differen...
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Episode Seven - Agricultural Robotics: Farming for the future from 2021-04-30T13:30:43
Although as consumers we may sometimes feel quite detached from food production, agriculture is central to all our lives. As an industry, agriculture has often been at the forefront of technolog...
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Episode Six - Human-Robot Collaboration: working together from 2021-03-27T17:43:34
Although robots have been in our lives for decades, they have often been kept quite separate from the humans they help, whether that's huge industrial manufacturing robots that operate behind fe...
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Episode Five - Robots for hazardous environments: into the extremes from 2021-02-26T18:41:42
One way in which robots can be put to particularly good use is for performing tasks in environments that are too dangerous for humans to work, for example deep below ground or underwater, or in ...
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Episode Four - Robot Senses: perceiving the world from 2021-01-29T21:20:33
If we want to create smart, adaptable robots, the first thing they need to be able to do is to sense and understand the world around them.
In this episode, I explore how robots sense and ...
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Winter Treats Pt 5 from 2020-12-31T17:30
Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In the final clip, we hear from UK roboticists about the robots they'd most like to ha...
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Winter Treats Pt 4 from 2020-12-31T15:30
Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In the fourth clip, we hear researchers' tips and advice for starting a career in robo...
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Winter Treats Pt 3 from 2020-12-30T17:00
Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In this clip, we hear from UK roboticists about what made them decide to pursue a care...
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Winter Treats Pt 2 from 2020-12-30T14:00
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions. In the second clip, we hear from UK roboticists about their favourite robot characters from film and tele...
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Winter Treats Pt 1 from 2020-12-29T17:00:49
As a special treat for the holiday season, Claire asked her guests some extra questions about their careers, their advice, and their favourite robots. In the first clip, we hear from UK robotici...
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Episode Three - Robot Locomotion: getting moving from 2020-11-27T17:46:12
One of the most fundamental things a robot can do is to move around in its environment, and engineers have developed lots of different solutions to robotic locomotion – legs, wheels, rotors, and...
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Episode Two - Space Robotics: out of this world from 2020-10-30T15:16:07
Of all the different areas that robotics is being applied to, space robotics might be the one that most captures people’s imaginations and inspires us to make what seems impossible, possible. Fr...
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Episode One – Medical Robotics: into the operating theatre from 2020-09-25T13:49:44
It’s not an exaggeration to say that robotics research is driving life-saving innovations – robots are already making a difference in clinics and operating theatres around the world. In our firs...
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Robot Talk Trailer from 2020-09-21T16:47:30
Robot Talk is a brand new podcast that sits down with some of the UK's top robotics researchers and asks them questions like, "How does that work?", "What's better, legs or wheels?", and "How so...
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