Talking Robots: Auke Ijspeert - Salamander robot swims and walks

In this episode we interview Auke Ijspeert on his amphibious salamander robot. He explains how central pattern generators are a powerful tool to link simple high-level commands to complex patterns of locomotion including gait changes, and how they are used in his robot.

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Talking Robots is a podcast featuring interviews with high-profile professionals in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics. It is brought to you by the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. New episodes are released every two weeks, on Fridays at 9am GMT. For more information, click the robot or visit http://lis2.epfl.ch/podcast