A robot for grandma?
Case Bennett, chief scientific officer of Raiven Healthcare, explains how socially assistive robots are providing positive benefits to those showing cognitive decline.
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A robot that can go where humans can't
Tonya Hall talks with Dr. Marco Hutter, co-founder of Anybotics and assistant professor for Robotic Systems, about the future of walking robots.
New robot designs are challenging, says MIT
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.
A Mini Bakery that is actually a robot bakery
Randall Wilkinson, CEO at Wilkinson Baking Company, tells Tonya Hall about new BreadBots that are solving production, distribution, and freshness problems.
Beyond vacuums: Home robotics
Philip Roan, senior engineer of robotics at BSH Home Appliance Corporation, traces the evolution of home robots beginning with vacuum cleaners, the challenges of merging IoT and home automation products from different manufacturers, and the last in artificial intelligence for the kitchen.
AWS: Companies will develop their own robots for dirty chores
Dr. Roger Barga, general manager at AWS Robotics, tells Tonya Hall that every company with a "dull, dirty, or dangerous chore" will develop their own robots.
Mabu, the personal health care robot
Tonya Hall speaks with Dr. Cory Kidd, CEO at Catalia Health, about a robot design that has been influenced by MIT's Media Lab.
How robots are beginning to stray from the single-grip design
Carl Vause, CEO of Soft Robotics, discusses with ZDNet's Tonya Hall how his company is finding a way to solve the single-grip robotic design.
Robots that learn from trial and error
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.
Origami robots might replace traditional robot designs
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.