Andreas Orthey Podcast

"Well designed machines are sexy!" Join me for Episode 10 of the podcast. This time my guest is the legendary Dennis Hong, Professor of Robotics at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Washington Post called him the Leonardo da Vinci of robotics, he is the go-to expert whenever Hollywood needs a robot, and he has appeared on shows like MasterChef USA and Magic for Humans. Denni...

PAL Robotics is one of the most successful robotics companies in Europe, with more than 200 robots deployed in over 15 countries. Join me for an in-depth discussion with co-founder and CEO Francesco Ferro. We talk about the different robotics products PAL Robotics has launched, the challenges the company has faced, and what is needed to actually build a cashflow positive robotics company. I am hap...

Join me for a podcast episode with the brilliant Jamie Paik (Prof EPFL, Reconfigurable Robotics Lab). We explore her upbringing where she was torn between science and art, her contributions to reconfigurable and soft robotics, her pioneering work on Robogamis (Origami Robots), and her patented JAiMY tool for Laparoscopic surgery. Jamie is really at the very frontier of robotics research, and I am...

Everyone talks AI, but what is intelligence, actually? Join me and Prof. Oliver Brock, director of the Science of Intelligence excellence cluster, for a deep-dive into the science of intelligence, robotics, protein folding, and his startup side quests. Here are my three personal highlights from this podcast: - Oliver believes that intelligence manifests itself through behavior, and that behavior d...

Majid Khadiv is Professor for AI Planning in Dynamic Environments at Technical University Munich (TUM). In this podcast, we talk about multiple topics connected to the future of humanoid robotics, including: - Which company is winning humanoid robotics? - What are the major application areas for humanoid robots? - The power of visualizing dynamical equations - How to recover on flat terrain by onl...

The global drone market is projected to reach 260 billion USD by 2030 [1]. Are you curious about the technology driving this revolution? I recently sat down with Wolfgang Hönig, professor for multi-robot coordination at the TU Berlin, for an in-depth discussion on the future of robot drones. In our podcast episode, we discuss - When will drone package delivery become a Reality? - How to overcome t...

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 peo...

Imagine tiny robots moving through your bloodstream, breaking down blood clots, repairing damaged cells, or delivering targeted drugs to tumor sites. This isn't science fiction---it is the real-world potential of microrobotics, a field on the verge of revolutionizing robotics research and transforming medicine as we know it. In episode #3 of my podcast, I sit down with leading expert Brad Nelson,...

Steve LaValle is one of the pioneers of robot motion planning. I got the rare opportunity to talk with him in my podcast series on robotics. Topics included his work on the Planning algorithms book, development of the rapidly-exploring random tree algorithm, minimal sufficient robot brains, doing motion planning research with his son, and his new life in Oulu, Finland. Please enjoy! Content 00:40...

I recently talked with James Kuffner at the ICRA conference in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Topics included getting into Stanford, his contributions to robot motion planning, robotics in japan, the google self-driving car project, Woven city, and his advice on becoming successful. Content 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Background 02:38 Getting into robotics 04:55 Programming at 12 years old 05:52 Getti...