Tonya Hall talks to Dr. Julie A Shah, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics and leader of the interactive robotics group of the computer science and AI Laboratory at MIT, to learn more about what challenges robot designers are facing when coming up with new robotic designs.
Dr. Paul McEuen, director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science at Cornell, tells Tonya Hall about the latest research surrounding microbots.
Dr. Marc Miskin, assistant professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, talks to Tonya Hall about how nanobots can be used and best ways to engineer them.
Tonya Hall and Dr. Danny Lange, vice president of AI at Unity Technologies, discuss the likelihood that robots gain cognitive capabilities by addressing the remaining technology challenges.
Dr. Leigh Clark, lecturer at the Computational Foundry in Swansea University, explains to Tonya Hall why humans are beginning to show courtesy and respect to machines within their career field.
Dr. Dmitry Berenson, associate professor at the University of Michigan, speaks with Tonya Hall about how robots can now learn from trial and error, beginning with computer-based simulations.
Tonya Hall talks to Dr. Kate Darling, research specialist at the MIT Media Lab, to learn more about why, in some cases, military officers are becoming attached to battlefield robots.
Dr. Jamie Paik, director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, talks to ZDNet's Tonya Hall about the pros and cons of traditional robots and how robots designed like origami will be a future trend.
Dr. William "Red" Whittaker, professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, talks to Tonya Hall about how robots are making it easier to explore difficult lunar conditions.
Dr. Christoph Keplinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, talks to Tonya Hall about how improvements to robot muscles are making them similar to human muscles.
