#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
August 9, 2020
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Episode 114 · August 9, 2020
#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
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#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Summary
<p>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.</p>
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<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
04:29 – Passive dynamic walking<br />
09:40 – Animal movement<br />
13:34 – Control vs Dynamics<br />
15:49 – Bipedal walking<br />
20:56 – Running barefoot<br />
33:01 – Think rigorously with machine learning<br />
44:05 – DARPA Robotics Challenge<br />
1:07:14 – When will a robot become UFC champion<br />
1:18:32 – Black Mirror Robot Dog<br />
1:34:01 – Robot control<br />
1:47:00 – Simulating robots<br />
2:00:33 – Home robotics<br />
2:03:40 – Soft robotics<br />
2:07:25 – Underactuated robotics<br />
2:20:42 – Touch<br />
2:28:55 – Book recommendations<br />
2:40:08 – Advice to young people<br />
2:44:20 – Meaning of life</p>