Rafael Hostettler's guest appearances

Rafael Hostettler

Soft Robotics Podcast

KidsLab - a podcast for parents and educators passionate about STEAM education

Labs Talk

Johannes Engelke

Sven Haiges

Michael Bartlett

Noam Chomsky

Hod Lipson

Chelsea Finn

Michael Levin

Gary Marcus

Kenneth Stanley

Ayanna Howard

Nick Bostrom

Chris Anderson

Linda Liukas

Eric Weinstein

Bryan Johnson

OwlTail

Thanks to Hadi Sadati for the Offline Interviews as a part of International Embodied Intelligence Workshop.

Offline Interview  "Embodied Intelligence With Rafael Hostettler

I am talking to Rafael Hostettler, he’s the guardian and project lead of Roboy - a very exciting robotics project of Devanthro GmbH. Late last year, they’ve also kickstarted and released a children’s book called Roboy &amp; Lucy.Rafael is Roboy’s legal guardian and project lead. He has an Master in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and works towards his PhD at the robotics and embedded systems lab at the Technical University of Munich. He’s a true robotics enthusiast and played a huge role in the history and development of Roboy. Roboy is an advanced humanoid robot and research project that was originally developed at the AI Lab of the University of Zurich. Right after its unveiling, Rafael adopted the robot and moved with it to Munich. As already mentioned, Roboy is all about humanoid robotic design - the human body is the blueprint. This means Roboy has a skeleton and muscles for example - and uses a lot of AI in each of the sub-systems of course. We’ll definitely chat about Roboy a lot during the interview, but the focus is actually on a children’s book called Roboy &amp; Lucy that Rafael helped to kickstarted and fulfill in 2019. The book is now available in both English and German and also in digital and print format. The book teaches about friendship, curiosity, and the use of technology for a good purpose.

I am talking to Rafael Hostettler, he’s the guardian and project lead of Roboy - a very exciting robotics project of Devanthro GmbH. Late last year, they’ve also kickstarted and released a children’s book called Roboy &amp; Lucy. Rafael is Roboy’s legal guardian and project lead. He has an Master in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland and works towards his PhD at the robotics and embedded systems lab at the Technical University of Munich. He’s a true robotics enthusiast and played a huge role in the history and development of Roboy. Roboy is an advanced humanoid robot and research project that was originally developed at the AI Lab of the University of Zurich. Right after its unveiling, Rafael adopted the robot and moved with it to Munich. As already mentioned, Roboy is all about humanoid robotic design - the human body is the blueprint. This means Roboy has a skeleton and muscles for example - and uses a lot of AI in each of the sub-systems of course. We’ll definitely chat about Roboy a lot during the interview, but the focus is actually on a children’s book called Roboy &amp; Lucy that Rafael helped to kickstarted and fulfill in 2019. The book is now available in both English and German and also in digital and print format. The book teaches about friendship, curiosity, and the use of technology for a good purpose.

Roboy & Lucy with Rafael Hostettler

This episode, we tackle modern-day robots -- and we're not talking about your roomba! Meet Rafael Hostettler, the legal guardian and project lead for "Roboy". Roboy is the robot of your (and Isaac Asimov's) dreams: an advanced anthropomimetic machine originally developed at the  University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Now Roboy calls Munich his home, where a truly multidisciplinary TUM team of engineers and students base research off of Roboy's unique humanoid features and evolving abilities to the fields of AI, computer science, neuroscience, bioengineering, avatar tech, social psychology, and more.In our discussion, we cover topics ranging from how Roboy works and what he can do, to how humanoid robots can teach us more about ourselves; whether it’s how to perfect the mechanics of the human body or how society can - and should - welcome a future where automation makes much of our daily tasks obsolete. Tune in for some extraordinary conversation!Links:RoboyTUM - Robotics research clusterHuman Brain ProjectBooks - Roboy and Lucy "Superhero Glasses" and moreANA Avatar XPRIZE CompetitionRelated:I, Robot - book and filmPaper - "From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction"

This episode, we tackle modern-day robots -- and we're not talking about your roomba! Meet <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhostettler/?originalSubdomain=de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rafael Hostettler</a>, the legal guardian and project lead for "Roboy". <a href="https://roboy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roboy</a> is the robot of your (and Isaac Asimov's) dreams: an advanced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropomimetic&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anthropomimetic</a> machine originally developed at the  University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Now Roboy calls Munich his home, where a truly multidisciplinary <a href="https://www.tum.de/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TUM</a> team of engineers and students base research off of Roboy's unique humanoid features and evolving abilities to the fields of AI, computer science, neuroscience, bioengineering, avatar tech, social psychology, and more.In our discussion, we cover topics ranging from how Roboy works and what he can do, to how humanoid robots can teach us more about ourselves; whether it’s how to perfect the mechanics of the human body or how society can - and should - welcome a future where automation makes much of our daily tasks obsolete. Tune in for some extraordinary conversation! Links: <a href="https://roboy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roboy</a> <a href="https://www.in.tum.de/en/research/research-cluster/robotics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TUM - Robotics research cluster</a> <a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Human Brain Project</a> <a href="https://roboy.org/lucy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Books - Roboy and Lucy "Superhero Glasses" and more</a> <a href="https://www.xprize.org/articles/77-teams-worldwide-advance-in-avatar-competition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition</a> Related: I, Robot - <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41804.I_Robot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">book</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">film</a> <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2018.0024" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paper - "From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction"</a>

Roboy with Rafael Hostettler