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Science Magazine Podcast

Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about plans for NASA’s first visit to the Moon in 50 years—and the quick succession of missions that will likely follow.  Next, Eileen Roesler, a researcher and lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of human-robot automation, discusses the benefits of making robots that look and act like people—it’s not always as helpful as you would think.  This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: Virginie Angéloz/Noun Project; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [Alt text: three robot drawings that look like people to different degrees] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Paul Voosen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.8

Welcome to the science podcast for September 10, 2021. I'm Sarah Presby.

1:28.3

Each week we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.

1:33.3

First up this week, staff writer Paul Voussin talks about plans for NASA's first visit to the moon in 50 years,

1:40.3

and a quick succession of missions to follow.

1:43.3

After that, we have researcher Eileen Rosler.

1:46.3

She discusses a science robotics paper on the benefits of making robots that look and act like people.

1:57.4

Now we have staff writer Paul Voussin.

2:00.0

He wrote this week on NASA's plan for some quick and dirty moon missions.

2:05.3

Hi, Paul.

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