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A roboticist is a person who designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, human–computer interaction and interaction design. Roboticists often work for university, industry, and government research labs, but may also work for startup companies and other entrepreneurial firms. Amateur Robotics is also a growing hobby all over the world.
Robotics is unusual in combining elements of science, engineering, and art. Many roboticists are also deeply involved in the creative arts such as literature, drama, music, and film. Some roboticists have a background in the arts and are drawn to robotics as a medium for expression. The acclaimed Czech playwright Karel Capek (1890-1938) made the first use of the word ‘robot’, from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Later the Three Laws of Robotics were written by Isaac Asimov.
Dr. Marek Michalowski creates adorable, interactive robotic characters for research, entertainment, therapy, education, and art. Watch our latest Day in the Life release and find out what jumpstarted his passion for technology and the human brain. Explore more career videos at http://connectedstudios.org/life_videos Subscribe to our channel on Facebook or Twitter: facebook.com/connectedstudios twitter.com/ce_studios
Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. Robotics engineer Dennis Hong demonstrates some of the remarkable robots that his team has built. They include a robot that can move by turning itself inside out, one that moves using compressed air, and another that moves on two legs; robots that can walk across sand, climb vertical cliffs, and climb over obstacles three times their height; and a robotic car that may allow the blind to drive. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implicatio...
For those of you who watched BattleBots, we hoped you noticed one of the coolest robots on the show that never entered the combat arena. Roboticist (and previous BattleBots competitor) Mark Setrakian lent his beautiful Axis robot to the production to use as the trophy podium. We chat with Mark about this mesmerizing robot and his animatronics work! Shot and edited by Joey Fameli Subscribe for more videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testedcom Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/testedcom Get updates on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/testedcom Tested is: Norman Chan http://www.twitter.com/nchan Will Smith http://www.twitter.com/willsmith Joey Fameli http://www.twitter.com/joeyfameli Adam Savage http://www.twitter.com/donttrythis Jamie Hyneman http://w...
Gamer kids, rejoice: Brown University computer scientist and roboticist Chad Jenkins' career path started when he got the Atari 2600 video game system and was inspired to tinker with games and programs of us own. Want to know how to get from dominating your friends at Mario Kart to programming your own robots? In this snippet from the 2014 World Science Festival program "Cool Jobs," Jenkins talks about all the things he had to learn along the way, and demonstrates some of the amazing automatons that are easier than ever to program. Imagine exploring the Amazon river to dig up a rare breed of leeches, or heading into space to repair the famed Hubble Space Telescope, or crawling through a tiny crevice in the Earth in search of remains of our earliest ancestors. Well, you don’t have to just ...
Japanese robot expert Hiroshi Ishiguro makes lifelike androids in order to explore what it means to be human.
In the first episode of Re/code's new video series, “The 26%: Women Speak Out on Tech’s Diversity Crisis,” Leila Takayama of Google X discusses her early days at robotics pioneer Willow Garage, the importance of diverse perspectives in product design and how she has tackled subtle or explicit gender discrimination in her career.
Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points. This episode features Rodney Brooks. He is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003, until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laborat...
We all love BB-8, R2-D2, and C-3PO (well, mostly), but are the Republic's rag-tag hero droids fit for the real-world space trials of NASA? JPL Roboticist Brett Kennedy explains why one droid is cut above the rest for space utility! Kim Horcher discusses with special guest Brandon Winfrey (Writer, Insomniac Games)! Watch the full video from WIRED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oaCqTmQwc ►Nerd Alert needs YOU! Please subscribe for more! http://dft.ba/-5yMt **************************************************** On FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NerdAlertTYT ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NerdAlertTYT KIM: https://facebook.com/kimhorcherofficial BRANDON: https://twitter.com/bwinfrey Nerd Alert: Bringing you tech news, gaming, geek culture and more every day of the week with hos...
Robert Wood is a roboticist at Harvard University who has designed robobees. He is also an Expeditions in Computing Awardee and has been awarded the 2012 Alan T. Waterman Award.