Silicon Sailors - Robots take to the waves

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Would you set sail with a robotic skipper? This week, the World Robotic Sailing Championships grace the waters of Cardiff Bay, and we meet the teams to find out how this could lead to a sea change in robot science. Plus, we find out how robots are coming out of the factory and into the home, to care for the elderly and help children learn. In the news, stem cells restore hearing to deaf gerbils, facebook alters voting behaviour, and why a blue berry is the brightest thing in nature... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists. The Duchess of Cambridge's Brests will not be covered in the programme, but we do have an even
0:27.0	more alluring offering for you this week, a full expose, no less, on the world of robotics,
0:32.0	because this week sees the first outing in
0:34.8	Britain of the World Robotic Sailing Championships which launched tomorrow in Cardiff.
0:40.0	One of the organizers Colin Salze is here to talk us through the lineup.
0:44.3	It is Sunday September the 16th. My name is Chris Smith and I am joined this week by Dominic Ford.
0:49.2	Hello Dominic.
0:50.2	Thanks Chris and we'll also find out how else robots are set to make an impact on our everyday lives in the coming years and might they end up taking over the world as in the film Terminator.
1:00.0	robotics professor Alan Winfield is with us to discuss the issue.
1:04.0	Plus news this week that scientists have used stem cells to successfully restore hearing
1:10.0	to deaf gerbils. That's coming up.
1:15.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UK Fast, the UK's best hosting provider on the web at
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1:25.0	Tomorrow the fifth world robotics sailing championships will be launched in Cardiff Bay, Wales.
1:35.7	The event will see five teams from around the world pitting their robotic seafarer wits against
1:40.6	one another in a variety of demanding challenges from collision
1:43.7	avoidance to long-distance sailing. Colin Soze is a robotics researcher at
1:48.8	Abreistworth University. He's also one of the organizers and the competitor in the championships and is with us from Cardiff.
1:55.3	Colin hello.
1:56.3	Hi. So how did this competition get going?
1:58.1	Quite a few years ago I was at the end of my undergraduate course and beginning a PhD
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