#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

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. Support this podcast by supporting
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able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 -
Introduction 04:29 - Passive dynamic walking 09:40 - Animal
movement 13:34 - Control vs Dynamics 15:49 - Bipedal walking 20:56
- Running barefoot 33:01 - Think rigorously with machine learning
44:05 - DARPA Robotics Challenge 1:07:14 - When will a robot become
UFC champion 1:18:32 - Black Mirror Robot Dog 1:34:01 - Robot
control 1:47:00 - Simulating robots 2:00:33 - Home robotics 2:03:40
- Soft robotics 2:07:25 - Underactuated robotics 2:20:42 - Touch
2:28:55 - Book recommendations 2:40:08 - Advice to young people
2:44:20 - Meaning of life