Robotic roundup

Hour 1

Guests: Daniel Lee, Katherine Kuchenbecker, Vijay Kumar

Robots can run, walk, climb, drive and fly.  They work in factories, in farm fields, in surgical operating rooms, and in our living rooms vacuuming the floors.  They patrol drug tunnels along the border, battle wildfires from the air, and fight enemy combatants abroad. Robots have been advancing quickly — so today we check on just how far they’ve come and what the future might look like.  Marty sits down with three leading roboticists from the University of Pennsylvania:  DANIEL LEE, a Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Director of the GRASP Lab, KATHERINE KUCHENBECKER, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and VIJAY KUMAR, UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and assistant director of robotics and cyber physical systems at the White house Office of Science and Technology Policy.