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Hosted by David Berreby · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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All about the robots and AI that are appearing in our day-to-day lives, doing things that people used to do. robots4therestofus.substack.com
David Berreby hosts Robots for the Rest of Us Podcast, a technology show with 20 episodes published.
I am at ICRA – the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, aka 7,000 roboticists from all over the world converging to discuss every robot-related topic on Earth. More posts are coming, but for now, day
Why hasn’t workplace artificial intelligence made life easier for everyone? Some surveys see a vast majority of employees saying AI adds to their workload, for a variety of reasons (having to check what the AI does, havi
Most people agree there’s something wrong with an AI pretending to be a human being. And especially wrong about an AI telling you it’s a human therapist. In fact, a California legislator introduced a bill the other day t
Data scientist Wes Chaar was at home a few years ago, working with the tools of his trade, when he had an “aha!” moment. He realized the information he was looking at would let him predict not only what people would buy
We’re an aging society, with a shortage of young-ish people to do the work, paid and unpaid, of helping others get through life. (Immigration crackdowns will make this shortage more acute.) Inevitably, robots are coming
Robot-makers often test the limits of the possible and make ingenious new technology. Can we make this? Can we make it do that twice as fast? Robot users, on the other hand, have different concerns, like “is it simple en
People often see double when they see a robot. They know it’s just a collection of metal and plastic parts. And they think it might be sad after working so hard all day. Or mad. Or glad. Now that AI can talk, sing, laugh
Soon, AI companies expect to be selling “agents” — AIs that reserve tickets, cancel subscriptions and take other actions for their users. The companies are also talking up the power of generative AI to hold a natural con
In Eakta Jain’s urban, engineering-centric New Delhi childhood, the closest she got to intimacy with living things was watering the plants. Even the household pets were robots (both her parents worked in the field). Toda
Moxi is a human-sized wheeled robot that’s built to do hospital chores. It’s made by Diligent Robotics to free nurses and other staff to spend more time with patients and their problems (and less time walking down hallwa
How should we see robots as they roll (or walk, or fly, or swim) into our lives? As animals to train? Children to guide? Loyal servants? Amiable friends? Therapists? Or therapons? Fellow workers? Fellow artists? People a
Decades before Karel Čapek coined the word "robot" in 1920, Americans and Europeans already dreamed of mechanical workers. Actually, they weren’t just dreaming, as Taylor Evans, of UC Riverside has found. The image for t
When robots were simpler it might have been reasonable to talk about them with generalizations about "people," "needs" and "experiences." But now robots are increasingly involved in day-to-day life, where these broad ter
How do you make a robot that people will actually want to use? That is, a robot that they understand without having to take a three-day training course, that they put to real work, that doesn’t give them the willies? One
Not long after ChatGPT was unleashed on the public, engineers at Levatas started tinkering with ways to incorporate it into the robots they furnish to big companies. Levatas supplies ways to automate industrial inspectio
In his younger days Ken Goldberg had two versions of his CV: One for his wide-ranging work in robotics and artificial intelligence, another for his equally broad interest in making art. Nowadays it’s fair to say he has c
Most robots do badly in unpredictable situations. I’ve seen a dexterous robot stop its assembly work because a piece of plastic didn’t land precisely flat. A human worker would have nudged the thing into place without a
For the past century, humans have imagined people-like robots but used robots that didn’t look like people at all. Only science-fiction people have robot butlers vacuuming the floor. Real-life people have Roombas. But th
Tom Williams
Consultant rheumatologist and Education Lead at the RNHRD, RUH Bath · Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School
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Chris Nielsen
Team Nielsen Sleddogs
1 appearance on this show
Taylor Evans
UC Riverside
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Naganand Murty
Electric Sheep
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Jonathan Hurst
Agility Robotics
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