Free Forum with Terrence McNally DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS (1) RADHIKA NAGPAL, (2) ROBERT WOOD, and (3) CONOR WALSH
Jul 31, 2015
23:13
Welcome to the second episode of my new monthly podcast series produced with Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS features three separate interviews with (1) RADHIKA NAGPAL, (2) ROBERT WOOD, and (3) CONOR WALSH. From insects in your backyard, to creatures in the sea, to what you see in the mirror, engineers and scientists at Wyss are drawing inspiration to design a whole new class of smart robotic devices
In this one, ROBERT WOOD discusses new manufacturing techniques that are enabling popup and soft robots. His team’s ROBO-BEE is the first insect-sized winged robot to demonstrate controlled flight.
In part one, RADHIKA NAGPAL talks about her work Inspired by social insects and multicellular systems, including the TERMES robots for collective construction of 3D structures, and the KILOBOT thousand-robot swarm. She also speaks candidly about the challenges faced by women in the engineering and computer science fields.
In part three, CONOR WALSH discusses how a wearable robotic exosuit or soft robotic glove could assist people with mobility impairments, as well as how the goal to create real-world applications drives his research approach.
The mission of the Wyss Institute is to: Transform healthcare, industry, and the environment by emulating the way nature builds, with a focus on technology development and its translation into products and therapies that will have an impact on the world in which we live. Their work is disruptive not only in terms of science but also in how they stretch the usual boundaries of academia.
http://wyss.harvard.edu/
- See more at:
DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS Radhika Nagpal Interview
http://temcnally.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-30T21_32_52-07_00
DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS Conor Walsh Interview
http://temcnally.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-30T22_01_42-07_00
Robert Wood's interview transcript
http://aworldthatjustmightwork.com/2015/07/auto-draft-17/
DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS features three separate interviews with (1) RADHIKA NAGPAL, (2) ROBERT WOOD, and (3) CONOR WALSH. From insects in your backyard, to creatures in the sea, to what you see in the mirror, engineers and scientists at Wyss are drawing inspiration to design a whole new class of smart robotic devices
In this one, ROBERT WOOD discusses new manufacturing techniques that are enabling popup and soft robots. His team’s ROBO-BEE is the first insect-sized winged robot to demonstrate controlled flight.
In part one, RADHIKA NAGPAL talks about her work Inspired by social insects and multicellular systems, including the TERMES robots for collective construction of 3D structures, and the KILOBOT thousand-robot swarm. She also speaks candidly about the challenges faced by women in the engineering and computer science fields.
In part three, CONOR WALSH discusses how a wearable robotic exosuit or soft robotic glove could assist people with mobility impairments, as well as how the goal to create real-world applications drives his research approach.
The mission of the Wyss Institute is to: Transform healthcare, industry, and the environment by emulating the way nature builds, with a focus on technology development and its translation into products and therapies that will have an impact on the world in which we live. Their work is disruptive not only in terms of science but also in how they stretch the usual boundaries of academia.
http://wyss.harvard.edu/
- See more at:
DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS Radhika Nagpal Interview
http://temcnally.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-30T21_32_52-07_00
DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS Conor Walsh Interview
http://temcnally.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-30T22_01_42-07_00
Robert Wood's interview transcript
http://aworldthatjustmightwork.com/2015/07/auto-draft-17/