Talking Robots: Brad Nelson - BioMicroRobotics

In this episode we interview Brad Nelson who is the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zürich. At the root of BioMicroRobotics, Nelson has designed microrobots for retinal surgery applications. Pushing the principle of "embodiment" to the extreme, he's by embedding the intelligence of his robot within their physical body. In the end, their shape, material and physical properties allow them to interact with the environment and subsequently harvest energy, perform sensing, and navigate through the human body. Using similar principles, Nelson's lab won the 2007 RoboCup Nanogram Competition, the first year the event was held. The goal was to use autonomous microrobots smaller than 300μm to perform a series of soccer related tasks.

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Talking Robots: Brad Nelson - BioMicroRobotics is an episode from Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence by Talking Robots.

This episode is 23:06 long.

This episode was published on Feb 29, 2008.

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