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Conversations on Robotics

APR 29

Sean Murray: How to build a Robotics Company, Robot Motion Planning on a Chip | Andreas Orthey #4

How do you build a robotics company? Join me in my latest podcast episode, where I talk with Sean Murray, co-founder and director of robotics engineering at Realtime Robotics. Our topics include: - His past as a chemical engineer - Motion planning on a chip - The challenges of starting a robotics company - The importance of early feedback in product development - Hiring and retaining the right people - How academic and industrial motion planning differs - The next 10 years of industrial robotics Please enjoy! Content 00:37 From Montana to Berlin 01:18 Born in Texas 02:26 First Contact with Computers 03:10 Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 04:10 Interests in Bioinformatics 05:37 Reservoir Engineering 07:31 Challenges in Reservoir Engineering 11:12 PhD in Computer Science 13:05 Benefits of having a different background 14:09 Goals in PhD 15:33 Robot Motion Planning on a Chip 18:53 Process of Starting a Robotics Company 20:29 Vision of First Product 21:56 Not what the industry wanted 22:57 First Customer 23:38 How to acquire Funding 24:50 Biggest Challenge to start Realtime Robotics 25:50 On Culture and Hiring 26:38 Philosophy of Hiring People 28:02 Retaining Good People in a Startup Environment 29:23 Building Technical Expertise and Retain it 30:31 Prerequisites to work at Realtime Robotics 31:40 Critical Skills in a Startup Environment 32:35 Differences between Academic and Industrial Motion Planning 35:22 Resolver for Workcell Optimization 38:19 Significance of Early Feedback 40:25 Current Challenges in the Robotics Industry 41:27 Balancing Shortterm and Longterm Goals 42:13 The Next 10 Years 43:28 AI in Robotics 44:44 Impact of Large Language Models in Robotics 45:40 Advice for your younger Self 46:39 Value of Pivoting Faster 47:17 Automation and Fears of Unemployment 49:05 Which jobs will become Obsolete? 49:32 Could Basic Universal Income Unemployment? 51:35 Exercises to Balance out Sitting on a Desk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/andreasorthey X/Twitter: https://x.com/andreas_orthey Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/andreasorthey/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aorthey/ Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/aorthey Website: https://aorthey.com

54 min
MAR 21

Bradley Nelson: Microrobotics in Medicine | Andreas Orthey #3

Content 00:38 Beginnings of Microrobotics: Manipulation at Small-Scale 02:45 Grand Challenges in the Field: Small, Intelligent Machines 03:27 Medical Applications of Microrobots 04:08 Regulatory Challenges: Sterility 05:08 Personal Motivations: From the Space Program to Microrobotics 06:43 First Robotics Project: Assembly Workcells and Force Control 09:00 PhD in Robotics: Microscopic Robots 10:14 Curiosity and Forces at the Smallest Scales 12:06 First Interest in Medical Robotics 15:13 Two Leading Causes of Death: Heart Attacks and Ischemic Strokes 16:09 Move Micro Robots: Magnetic Field Control 18:11 From Blockage to Relief: CTs, Nanoparticles, and Microneedles 21:25 Detection of Strokes: Face, Arm, and Speech Test 23:06 Formation of Blockages 23:55 Prevention of Blood Clots: Smoking, Diet, and Exercise 25:28 Femtotools: Force Sensors at Small Scales 27:19 Aeon Scientific and Nanoflex Robotics 28:03 Magnetic Fields: Dangers and Weak Fields 29:36 Effects of High-Frequency Magnetic Fields 30:18 From Research to Product: Challenges and Lessons learned 32:49 Building Exceptional Teams: Passion, Teamwork, and Uncertainty 34:11 Ideal Research Student: Excitement, Collaboration, Hard Work 35:39 Structure of Daily Work Days 37:18 What is the Smallest Scale for Robots? 39:40 The Limit: One Micrometer 40:21 Alternatives to Magnetic Fields for Actuation 41:11 Applications outside the Medical Field 43:08 How realistic is the movie Transcendence? 45:00 Current State on Transporting Drugs through the Body 47:09 Micro-robots in the Brain: What can we already do? 48:18 What Bradley is most proud of 48:45 What do you need to break into Micro-Robotics? 50:31 How to create a good interdisciplinary team? 51:59 How do LLMs affect the field of Micro-Robotics? 54:00 Current Research: Robotics Capsules and Teleoperations 56:34 Time in United States Peace Corps: Botswana and Teaching Math 58:56 Moving from Minnesota to Switzerland 01:00:52 Why Robotics is Amazing Links Youtube: http://youtube.com/andreasorthey X: https://x.com/andreas_orthey Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreasorthey LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aorthey/ Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/aorthey Website: https://aorthey.com

1h 2m
FEB 6

Steven M. LaValle: Robotics research, virtual reality, and life in finland | Andreas Orthey #2

Content 00:40 Early Childhood 04:59 Getting into University 07:27 Life at University 10:13 Symbolic vs Visual Mathematics 11:11 Getting into Phd Program 12:12 How to get into MIT for students 13:09 Advice from Phd Advisor 14:17 First Paper 16:30 Options after Phd 17:47 Advice to Phd Students 19:19 Postdoc in California 21:46 Demo for Bill Gates 22:52 Becoming Professor at Iowa State 23:34 Developing RRT 26:21 Reason of longterm success of RRT 28:34 Sampling-based vs. Randomized 30:30 Could RoboticsGPT deprecate motion planning? 31:53 Value of motion planning research 33:07 Information spaces 34:10 Minimal sufficient robot brains 35:37 Writing "Planning algorithms" 40:33 Managing and organizing references 42:08 Deprecated parts of the book 43:16 Challenges in writing more books 44:19 Unpublished RRT book 44:28 Reading and favorite books 45:50 Reading Ayn Rand 46:53 On joining Oculus VR 50:51 Virtual reality research 52:24 Killer application for VR 52:54 Facebook buys Oculus 53:31 Control over time is most important 54:20 Meeting Brett Leonard 55:30 Huawei 57:16 On being successful 59:30 H-Index as performance indicator 01:00:16 Metrics for academic career 01:01:36 Time allocation 01:02:28 Tired phase of career 01:03:26 Advice to younger researchers 01:04:40 Fascination with Finland 01:07:46 Learning Finnish 01:08:12 What Steve misses about the US 01:08:55 Benefits from Saunas 01:10:18 Future aspirations of lab 01:11:21 Research with Alexander LaValle 01:13:15 Robotics applications for daily life 01:14:04 Gardner hype cycle of deep learning 01:15:18 Value of material science for robotics 01:16:12 Closing comments LinksYoutube: http://youtube.com/andreasortheyX/Twitter: https://x.com/andreas_ortheySpotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreasortheyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aorthey/Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/aortheyWebsite: https://aorthey.com

1h 17m
11/12/2024

James Kuffner: Toyota Woven City, Robotics in Japan, Google Self-Driving Car | Andreas Orthey #1

I recently talked with James Kuffner at the ICRA conference in Rotterdam in theNetherlands. Topics included getting into Stanford, his contributions to robotmotion planning, robotics in japan, the google self-driving car project, Wovencity, and his advice on becoming successful. Outline 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Background 02:38 Getting into robotics 04:55 Programming at 12 years old 05:52 Getting into Stanford 07:30 Robotics at Stanford 12:19 From computer vision to motion planning 13:59 RRT-Connect algorithm 20:31 Is research in motion planning still valuable? 22:48 Will LLMs deprecate planning? 26:23 Timeline for truly intelligent robots 28:10 Breakthroughs required for AI 32:30 Cloud robotics 34:47 Going to Japan 37:04 Technological progress and craftsmanship in Japan 39:34 Work culture in Japan 43:49 Professor at Carnegie Mellon University 46:03 Collaborations at CMU 47:25 Self-driving project at Google 51:53 Coding mastery at google 53:51 Code search tool 55:09 Vi versus Emacs 56:27 Full self-driving 58:44 Who is ahead in self-driving technology? 01:01:06 Achieving level 5 autonomy 01:04:51 Behavior of robot cars and the median driver 01:06:30 Impact of self-driving on labor 01:10:37 Biggest problems for society 01:13:36 Woven City by Toyota 01:15:41 Job loss after Fukushima earthquake 01:18:01 A city from scratch 01:19:29 Climbing mount Fuji 01:20:42 Inventor garage 01:23:11 Startup incubator and beyond 01:23:57 Success definition 01:26:18 Daily habits 01:27:59 Pulling all-nighters 01:30:00 Advanced Shakespeare 01:30:58 Advice for early career researchers 01:31:59 Value of books 01:32:31 Linus Pauling: Change fields every 7 years 01:33:37 Next big project 01:34:34 Influential books 01:36:59 The value of biographies 01:38:23 Personal goal of 50 books per year 01:39:43 Biggest contribution to science Links: Youtube: http://youtube.com/andreasorthey X/Twitter: https://x.com/andreas_orthey Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreasorthey LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aorthey/ Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/aorthey Website: https://aorthey.com Errata: 49:16 James wants to add that the CMU car went 7.32 miles and not about 17 miles in the first DARPA grand challenge. 1:24:13 The success quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson and not E. Pugh. The original quote is: "What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

1h 41m

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