Talking Robots: Frédéric Kaplan - Curious Interactive Robots

In this episode we interview Frederic Kaplan. After ten years of research at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, he is now researcher at the CRAFT at the EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland where he supervises a new team focusing on interactive furniture and robotic objects. From curious AIBO robots to interactive robot computers and furniture, he has been exploring technologies permitting to endow objects with a personal history so that they become different as we interact with them and to learn from one another, thus creating an ecosystem in perpetual evolution.

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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