June 1st, 2012
Robots: Robotic fishes and mannequins – mp3
In today’s episode we talk to Maarja Kruusmaa about robotic fishes and the robotic mannequin they are developing at Fits.me, alongside with Diana Saarva, the COO of Fits.me.
Professor Maarja Kruusmaa is the head of the TUT Center for Biorobotics in Estonia and the R&D Director of Fits.me. She accomplished her PhD in 2002 in Computer Engineering in Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, before becoming professor in 2008 at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia.
She is now involved in the FILOSE, robotic fish locomotion and sensing project, whose team attempts to build robots that mimic how fishes react and adapt to the water flow around them. . . . Read Complete Report
