Podcast

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Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations.

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  Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  
  OUTLINE:
  00:00 - Introduction
  04:29 - Passive dynamic walking
  09:40 - Animal movement
  13:34 - Control vs Dynamics
  15:49 - Bipedal walking
  20:56 - Running barefoot
  33:01 - Think rigorously with machine learning
  44:05 - DARPA Robotics Challenge
  1:07:14 - When will a robot become UFC champion
  1:18:32 - Black Mirror Robot Dog
  1:34:01 - Robot control
  1:47:00 - Simulating robots
  2:00:33 - Home robotics
  2:03:40 - Soft robotics
  2:07:25 - Underactuated robotics
  2:20:42 - Touch
  2:28:55 - Book recommendations
  2:40:08 - Advice to young people
  2:44:20 - Meaning of life

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