RMIT Programming Club podcast

Sam Nolan

Join us as we talk to industry and academics about the future of IT and how to prepare yourself for what's coming.

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  1. 08/28/2020

    Robots with Renee McMillan-Tolley, Ian Peake and James Harland

    Welcome to our first podcast episode! Today we are talking about the future of robotics and how to get involved with robotics at RMIT. I had the honour of talking to: Renee McMillan-Tolley, Scrum Master for the Accenture's MyWizard AiOps team at Accenture. Former tutor and executive of the CSIT Society at RMIT. Dr Ian Peake, founding lab manager of the RMIT VX labs, a robotics and virtual experiences laboratory at RMIT. James Harland, a professor of computational logic, associate dean of student experience and well known lecturer at RMIT. Highlights of the episode: 1:40: An Introduction to RMIT VX Labs by Lab Manager Ian Peake 3:50: Movements in robotics research 4:40: James Harland on COVID-19 testing with drones 5:50: Renee McMillan-Tolley on Roombas 14:30: Renee McMillan-Tolley on using chatbots for social check ups 16:30: James Harland on AWS and Robotics 19:30: Challenges in Robotic human interaction 27:50: James Harland on implications of interactions with large quantities of drones 33:40: Ian Peake on Rosie, RMIT's humanoid robot 37:20: How to get into robotics at RMIT 44:00: Upcoming club events If you want to check out the VX labs more, check out the following: https://facebook.com/vxlabrmit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6EpN7H7GGKGefnfmq_Ynqw https://rmit.edu.au/vxlab

    Robots with Renee McMillan-Tolley, Ian Peake and James Harland
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