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Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114
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Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114

Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations.

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Aug 9, 20202h 48mWatch on YouTube ↗

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August 9, 2020
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2h 48m
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Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors. Click links, get discount:

EPISODE LINKS: Russ's Website: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/russt.html Russ's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1CtAHVea8I TRI: https://www.tri.global/team/dr-russ-tedrake Underactuated Robotics: http://underactuated.mit.edu Drake: https://drake.mit.edu PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 4:29 - Passive dynamic walking 9:40 - Animal movement 13:34 - Control vs Dynamics 15:49 - Bipedal walking 20:56 - Running barefoot 33:01 - Think rigorously with machine learning 44:05 - DARPA Robotics Challenge 1:07:14 - When will a robot become UFC champion 1:18:32 - Black Mirror Robot Dog 1:34:01 - Robot control 1:47:00 - Simulating robots 2:00:33 - Home robotics 2:03:40 - Soft robotics 2:07:25 - Underactuated robotics 2:20:42 - Touch 2:28:55 - Book recommendations 2:40:08 - Advice to young people 2:44:20 - Meaning of life CONNECT:

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Russ Tedrake, Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114 explores Let Physics Work: Russ Tedrake on Robots, Control, and Touch Lex Fridman and MIT roboticist Russ Tedrake explore how control theory, dynamics, and contact shape the behavior of both robots and animals, from passive dynamic walkers to fish surfing vortices and humans running barefoot.

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