Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Vijay Kumar is one of the top roboticists in the world, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dean of Penn Engineering, former director of GRASP lab, or the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory at Penn that was established back in 1979, 40 years ago. Vijay is perhaps best known for his work in multi-robot systems (or robot swarms) and micro aerial vehicles, robots that elegantly cooperate in flight under all the uncertainty and challenges that real-world conditions present. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Vijay Kumar.
0:03.2	He's one of the top roboticists in the world,
0:05.7	a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,
0:08.7	a dean of Penn Engineering, former director of Grassblab,
0:12.8	or the General Robotics Automation Sensing
0:15.2	and Perception Laboratory at Penn,
0:17.5	that was established back in 1979, that's 40 years ago.
0:22.5	Vijay is perhaps best known for his work
0:25.2	in multi-robot systems, robots warms,
0:28.5	and micro-arriol vehicles, robots that elegantly cooperate
0:33.0	and flight under all the uncertainty and challenges
0:36.1	that the real world conditions present.
0:38.7	This is the Artificial Deltons' podcast.
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0:49.4	at Lex Friedman spelled, Frid, M-A-N.
0:53.2	And now here's my conversation with Vijay Kumar.
0:58.3	["Bell Ringing"]
1:15.1	What is the first robot you've ever built
1:17.5	or were a part of building?
1:19.2	Way back when I was in graduate school,
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