Talking Robots: Roland Siegwart

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The latest interview in the Talking Robots podcast series talks to Roland Siegwart, headof the Autonomous Systems Lab andDirector of the Center for ProductDesign at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at theETH Zurich, Switzerland. In this interview Siegwart shares his long years of experience in bothresearch and industrial robotic applications. He talks about his work onthe next generation space rover for the EuropeanSpace Agency ESA, set to launch for Mars in 2013. And he drawsconclusions from one of the largestexperiments in real-world robot-public interaction to date, whereover the course of five months 10 robots guided more than 500'000visitors through the Swiss National ExpositionExpo02. Listen in - anddon't forget to have a look at Siegwart's latest book which offers an excellentadvanced introduction to autonomous mobile robots.

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