WhenIEEE Spectrum editors are placing collectively a difficulty of the journal, a narrative on the web site, or an episode of a podcast, we attempt to facilitate dialogue about applied sciences, their improvement, and their implications for society and the planet. We function knowledgeable voices to articulate technical challenges and describe the engineering options they’ve devised to fulfill them.
So when Senior Editor Evan Ackerman cooked up an idea for a robotics podcast, he leaned onerous into that concept. Ackerman, the world’s premier robotics journalist, talks with roboticists every single day, and recording these conversations to show these interviews right into a podcast is often a comparatively simple course of. However Ackerman needed to attempt one thing a bit bit completely different: bringing two roboticists collectively and simply getting out of the best way.
“The best way the Chatbot podcast works is that we invite a few robotics specialists to speak with one another a couple of subject they’ve in frequent,” Ackerman explains. “They give you the questions, not us, which ends up in the sorts of robotics conversations you gained’t hear anyplace else—uniquely informative but additionally stunning and enjoyable.”
Every episode focuses on a common subject the roboticists have in frequent, however as soon as they get to chatting, the friends are free to ask one another about no matter pursuits them. Ackerman is there to ensure they don’t wander too far into the weeds, as a result of we would like everybody to have the ability to take pleasure in these conversations. “However in any other case, I’ll principally simply be listening,” Ackerman says, “as a result of I’ll be as excited as you might be to see how every episode unfolds.”
We predict this distinctive format offers the listener the within scoop on elements of robotics that solely the roboticists themselves may get one another to disclose. Our first few episodes are already dwell. They embrace Skydio CEO Adam Bry and the College of Zurich professor Davide Scaramuzza speaking about autonomous drones, Labrador Programs CEO Mike Dooley and iRobot chief know-how officer Chris Jones on the challenges home robots face in unpredictable dwellings, and choreographer Monica Thomas and Amy LaViers of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab discussing methods to make Boston Dynamics’ robotic dance.
We’ve got a lot extra Chatbot episodes within the works, so please subscribe on no matter podcast service you want, pay attention and skim the transcript on our web site, or watch the video variations on the Spectrum YouTube channel. Whilst you’re at it, subscribe to our different biweekly podcast, Fixing the Future, the place we speak with specialists and Spectrum editors about sustainable options to local weather change and different matters of curiosity. And we’d love to listen to what you consider our podcasts: what you want, what you don’t like, and particularly who you’d like to listen to on future episodes.
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