Episode 155 – Making aerial robots smarter
Claire chatted to Melissa Greeff from Queen’s University about autonomous navigation and learning for drones.
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Episode 146 – Embodied AI on the ISS
Claire chatted to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit.
Episode 122 – Bio-inspired flying robots
Claire chatted to Jane Pauline Ramos Ramirez from Delft University of Technology about drones that can move on land and in the air.
Episode 103 – Delivering medicine by drone
Claire chatted to Keenan Wyrobek from Zipline about drones for delivering life-saving medicine to hard to reach locations.
Episode 97 – Robot swarms for environmental monitoring
Claire chatted to Pratap Tokekar from the University of Maryland about how teams of robots with different capabilities can work together.
Episode 85 – Drone vision and navigation
Claire chatted to Margarita Chli from the University of Cyprus about vision, navigation, and small aerial drones.
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Claire chatted to Ignazio Maria Viola from the University of Edinburgh all about aerodynamics, dandelion-inspired drones, and swarm sensing.
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