INSECT-LIKE DRONES THAT SENSE, LEARN AND SWARM — WITH GUIDO DE CROON
Insect-like drones that tend crops, perform aircraft inspections and find gas leaks are HERE … and they’re only the beginning! Today I’m diving into the future of bio-inspired drones with Prof Guido de Croon at the Micro-Air Vehicle Lab …
YOUR MEDICAL MICRO-ROBOT IS READY — WITH BRAD NELSON
Microscale robots will be conducting medical procedures inside our bodies sooner than you think. For those of us who grew up watching Fantastic Voyage, that’s a stunning statement …
Multi-Sensory Surgical Robots — With Philipp Fürnstahl
Next-gen surgical robots are going beyond vision to listen and feel and apply other senses as they work. I visited Prof. Philipp Fürnstahl in Switzerland to discuss how they change the future of healthcare …
LIMITLESS A.I. IS COMING
What happens when machines learn forever? I spoke to Turing Award winner Prof Richard Sutton about plasticity and the future of artificial intelligence. One way or another, plasticity is coming, and it changes EVERYTHING ...
FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - WITH PAUL NEWMAN
What is driving the NEXT generation of AVs? Why are they inevitable everywhere, and how will they transform industries, cities and even economies? I checked in with Paul Newman, a trailblazer in robotics and autonomous systems, and a BIG thinker on the future …
What Does It Mean To Make a Robot Conscious?
What does it mean to make a robot conscious? I asked the roboticist doing it. Oh, and then we discussed robots taking care of each another, upgrading themselves, and reproducing! A mind-bending chat with the brilliant Hod Lipson, the BIG thinking founder of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab …
Hod Lipson Interview Transcript
Hod Lipson: We have this very human-centered belief that humans are special. A machine cannot have feelings. A machine cannot be creative. A machine cannot self-reproduce. For me, that's a call to action. And so one by one, I'm looking at these things …