Why a Robot Named Tarzan May Be The Key To Our Children's Food Security with Jonathan Rogers of Georgia Tech

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Rogers is a professor at Georgia Tech who's focused on designing and prototyping new robots for use in nontraditional environments.
In his newest project, the nontraditional environment is a farm and the robot's name is Tarzan.
If you think a farm and a swinging robot are an odd combination, tune in to hear Jonathan Rogers explain how they're a perfect match and why this unlikely merger can help ensure the future of the world's food supply.
Here's a peek at what you'll discover inside this episode:

* Why robots are important to the future of farming
* What rapid throughput phenotyping is and how it affects your future
* Why drones aren't ideal for large field use on farms and ground robots aren't either
* What sloths have to do with robotics

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.7	This is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:28.9	Today I have an unusual topic, and probably not an unusual guest.
0:33.4	I'm sure he's a very normal person, but the name is Jonathan Rogers, assistant professor at Georgia Tech.
0:39.7	The thing we're going to be talking about is a little bit unusual.
0:42.2	It's a Tarzan Swing Robot.
0:45.0	Jonathan, how are you doing?
0:46.4	I'm good. How are you?
0:47.6	Good. Yeah.
0:49.0	Would you just give a quick background of who you are and then we'll talk about your project, your research.
0:55.1	Yeah, so I'm a professor here at Georgia Tech. I run a research program that's focused on
1:00.5	robotics technologies. My core area of expertise is in modeling and simulation algorithms for
1:09.2	analyzing the dynamics of robots and then developing control algorithms for them to
1:15.8	operate in an autonomous fashion.
1:18.7	And one of our core areas of expertise is in the design and prototyping of new robotics,
1:26.2	mechanisms, and technologies that allow us to, allow us to deploy
1:31.4	mobile robots in kind of a non-traditional environment.
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