Configuring the future of robotics

In this episode of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the news of the week, then we hear recent interviews with Mike Oitzman and Ting Ming Ling, founder and CEO of OTSAW. Next, we hear Eugene Demaitre interview Etienne Lacroix, CEO and founder of VENTION at the recent Robotics Summit.

Show Timeline

04:40 News

16:20 Interview with Ting from OTSAW

48:25 Interview with Etienne Lacroix from VENTION

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In the News this week

• Update from FIRA USA press conference last week.

1. 1. 1. MIke attended a live press conference last week highlighting the upcoming FIRA USA ag-robotics event and saw demos of the new Burro Grande, TRIC robotics (UV light) and ecoRobotix

• In San Francisco: Robbery suspects thought they’d escaped cops. Then they hit a Waymo

1. 1. 1. A robotaxi appears to have been in the right place at the right time at around 2 a.m. Monday morning, when robbery suspects crashed a stolen vehicle into a Waymo, foiling their escape, police said.
      2. Police then found the suspects had crashed into a Waymo at Folsom and 14th streets near the Alphabet-owned firm’s robotaxi parking lot. They were caught after a brief foot chase. Waymo did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

• Robot ‘SuperLimbs’ help astronauts stand up after falling

1. 1. 1. Developed by Harry Asada, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT
      2. Asada and his colleagues are designing a pair of wearable robotic limbs that can physically support an astronaut and lift them back on their feet after a fall. The system, which the researchers have dubbed Supernumerary Robotic Limbs or “SuperLimbs” is designed to extend from a backpack, which would also carry the astronaut’s life support system, along with the controller and motors to power the limbs.

Links from the show

Cleo Abram spacesuit YT video