#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 169 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Russ Tadjik, a roboticist and professor at MIT, |
| 0:05.5 | and vice president of robotics research at Toyota Research Institute or TRI. |
| 0:11.5 | He works on control of robots and interesting, complicated, underactuated the cast of |
| 0:17.9 | difficult to model situations. |
| 0:20.0 | He's a great teacher and a great person, one of my favorites at MIT. |
| 0:25.1 | We get into a lot of topics in this conversation from his time leading MIT's Dauper Robotics |
| 0:31.3 | Challenge team to the awesome fact that he often runs close to a marathon a day to and from |
| 0:38.0 | work barefoot. |
| 0:40.6 | For a world-class roboticist, interested in elegant, efficient control of underactuated |
| 0:45.4 | dynamical systems like the human body, this fact makes Russ one of the most fascinating |
| 0:52.0 | people I know. |
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