the école polytechnique fédérale de lausanne [swiss federal institute of technology in lausanne] airs an english podcast on robotics [rss - itunes].
in this interview they talk with
roland siegwart who is full professor at the
autonomous systems lab at the
eth zurich. based on his experience with the 18 robots he has created, he shares his know-how on autonomous robotics and the research which is being done on robot navigation/localisation and mapping.
in this interview they talk with
gianmarco veruggio who founded the association
scuola di robotica in genoa, italy, to study the complex relationship between robotics and society. this led him to coin the term and propose the concept of
roboethics, or the field of ethics applied to robotics. he discusses topics such as the use of robots in our everyday environments, the lethality and benefits of medical robots or military robots, augmented humans and robots as human-like artifacts. should we start thinking like
asimov, deriving laws and limits to apply for the peaceful cohabitation of humans and robots?