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

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 169 minutes

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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 our sponsors. Click links, get discount: – Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex & use code LEX at checkout – BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex – ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please

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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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