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3:09
Bruno Maisonnier
Dance, tiny robots!
Posted
Feb 2013
6:12
Ayanna Howard
Make robots smarter
Posted
Feb 2013
17:38
Guy Hoffman
Robots with "soul"
Posted
Jan 2014
4:57
David Hanson
Robots that "show emotion"
Posted
Oct 2009
5:11
Gil Weinberg
Can robots be creative?
Posted
Mar 2015
6:18
Hod Lipson
Building "self-aware" robots
Posted
Oct 2007
13:09
Vijay Kumar
The future of flying robots
Posted
Oct 2015
18:47
Rodney Brooks
Robots will invade our lives
Posted
Sep 2008
10:21
Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins
Meet the robots for humanity
Posted
Nov 2013
16:46
Vijay Kumar
Robots that fly ... and cooperate
Posted
Mar 2012
14:04
Cynthia Breazeal
The rise of personal robots
Posted
Feb 2011
8:30
Sougwen Chung
Why I draw with robots
Posted
Nov 2019
13:10
Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin
Tiny robots with giant potential
Posted
Feb 2020
20:22
Robert Full
Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity
Posted
Jun 2008
9:56
Rodney Brooks
Why we will rely on robots
Posted
Jun 2013
11:51
Kate Darling
Why we have an emotional connection to robots
Posted
Oct 2018
17:09
Ken Goldberg
4 lessons from robots about being human
Posted
May 2012
16:05
P.W. Singer
Military robots and the future of war
Posted
Apr 2009
9:27
Giada Gerboni
The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots
Posted
Jun 2018
8:59
Robin Murphy
These robots come to the rescue after a disaster
Posted
Aug 2015
12:55
Leila Takayama
What's it like to be a robot?
Posted
Jan 2018
12:26
Jamie Paik
Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
Posted
Jul 2019
11:23
Julie Chang
Why we need to design cameras for robots
Posted
Dec 2018
14:33
Marc Raibert
Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
Posted
Jul 2017
16:08
Raffaello D'Andrea
The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
Posted
Jun 2013
10:47
Ayanna Howard
Why we need to build robots we can trust
Posted
May 2019
5:07
Robert Full
The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
Posted
Jun 2014
10:06
Emma Hart
Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution
Posted
Mar 2022
6:17
Carl Vause
Meet the robot designed like an octopus tentacle
Posted
Jan 2018
6:19
Markus Fischer
A robot that flies like a bird
Posted
Jul 2011
6:26
Lucy Farey-Jones
A fascinating time capsule of human feelings toward AI
Posted
Mar 2020
10:54
Christoph Keplinger
The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future
Posted
Apr 2019
6:06
Sarah Bergbreiter
Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
Posted
Jan 2015
18:37
Dennis Hong
7 new species of robot that jump, dance — and walk on water
Posted
Jan 2023
14:10
Auke Ijspeert
A robot that runs and swims like a salamander
Posted
Jan 2016
14:10
Jonathan Rossiter
A robot that eats pollution
Posted
Feb 2017
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