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The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots | Giada Gerboni
Ted Talk: Robots are designed for speed and precision -- but their rigidity has often limited how they're used. In this illuminating talk, …
A robot that eats pollution | Jonathan Rossiter
Ted Talk: Meet the "Row-bot," a robot that cleans up pollution and generates the electricity needed to power itself by swallowing dirty wat…
Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors | Marc Raibert
Ted Talk: That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, founder of…
Why we have an emotional connection to robots | Kate Darling
Ted Talk: We're far from developing robots that feel emotions, but we already have feelings towards them, says robot ethicist Kate Darling,…
Maybe the best robot demo ever | Marco Tempest
Ted Talk: Marco Tempest uses charming stagecraft to demo EDI, the multi-purpose robot designed to work very closely with humans. Less a mag…
A human-robot dance duet | Huang Yi & KUKA
Ted Talk: Harmoniously weaving together the art of dance and the science of mechanical engineering, Huang Yi performs a man-machine dance d…
The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future | Christoph Keplinger
Ted Talk: Robot brains are getting smarter and smarter, but their bodies are often still clunky and unwieldy. Mechanical engineer Christoph…
Rodney Brooks: How robots will invade our lives
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way …
Bruno Maisonnier: Dance, tiny robots!
Ted Talk: There's a place in France where the robots do a dance. And that place is TEDxConcorde, where Bruno Maisonnier of Aldebaran Roboti…
Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone
Ted Talk: Your smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. At TED2013, Keller Rinaudo de…
Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
Ted Talk: By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny,…
Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselve…
Can a robot pass a university entrance exam? | Noriko Arai
Ted Talk: Meet Todai Robot, an AI project that performed in the top 20 percent of students on the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo…
Ai Weiwei detained. Here is his TED film
Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com The news that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been detained by authorities has prompted significant concern here …
Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves | Jamie Paik
Ted Talk: Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin mater…