Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at

blisterreview.com.

Today, we have another Blister Labs edition of Gear 30 for you, and our guest is Travis

Haynesworth, who is the associate director of the Western CU Boulder Computer Science

Program, and Travis is an absolutely integral part of the whole Blister Labs work

that we're doing, including deciphering all of this data that we are collecting on our

wheel set testing. Now, when we aren't dragging Travis out into the field to help us out with all of the motion

capture work that we're doing and the ensuing analysis, Travis is teaching courses such as

intro to robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and system dynamics.

Travis also has a forthcoming publication with a title I love called

Bio-inspired, untethered locomotion of Soft Snake Robot.

We actually talk about soft robotics in this very conversation.

And to pick just one other publication of Travis's, let's go with automated synthesis

of pneumatic soft actuators.

Now, if you want to know why I'm telling you the kind of courses that Travis teaches in a

couple of his publications, I'll be honest with you. It's because Travis and I get pretty

loose in this conversation. And I can imagine if you are a particularly unfun, boring, dry engineering type, this conversation might not be your cup

of tea. However, if you are a member of 99.9% of the rest of the human population, I think

you are going to see just how much fun Travis is, in addition to being wicked smart,

as our friends on the East Coast would say. And it is precisely Travis's combination of

serious fun and serious intellectual firepower. That's why we all love Travis so much in these parts and are so

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