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

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

Lex Fridman Podcast
Aug 9, 2020 2h 49m
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<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> <p>Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click links, get discount:<br /> &#8211; Magic Spoon: <a href="https://magicspoon.com/lex">https://magicspoon.com/lex</a> &#38; use code LEX at checkout<br /> &#8211; BetterHelp: <a href="https://betterhelp.com/lex">https://betterhelp.com/lex</a><br /> &#8211; ExpressVPN: <a href="https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod">https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod</a></p> <p>If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p> <p>OUTLINE:<br /> 00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 04:29 &#8211; Passive dynamic walking<br /> 09:40 &#8211; Animal movement<br /> 13:34 &#8211; Control vs Dynamics<br /> 15:49 &#8211; Bipedal walking<br /> 20:56 &#8211; Running barefoot<br /> 33:01 &#8211; Think rigorously with machine learning<br /> 44:05 &#8211; DARPA Robotics Challenge<br /> 1:07:14 &#8211; When will a robot become UFC champion<br /> 1:18:32 &#8211; Black Mirror Robot Dog<br /> 1:34:01 &#8211; Robot control<br /> 1:47:00 &#8211; Simulating robots<br /> 2:00:33 &#8211; Home robotics<br /> 2:03:40 &#8211; Soft robotics<br /> 2:07:25 &#8211; Underactuated robotics<br /> 2:20:42 &#8211; Touch<br /> 2:28:55 &#8211; Book recommendations<br /> 2:40:08 &#8211; Advice to young people<br /> 2:44:20 &#8211; Meaning of life</p>

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