Dr. Vytas SunSpiral of NASA gives a lecture in Lausanne, Switzerland about Intelligent Robotics and joins us to talk about how he uses human physiology and movement in his designs, why the study of animals can help him construct better robots, how collision avoidance isn’t perfectly possible in the real world, and how martial arts and gymnastics inspire his creations.
1:33 | Why we have a brain
3:15 | Animals and their relationship to gravity
4:03 | Why perfect collision avoidance is impossible
5:27 | The chicken with its head cut off
6:16 | Bragging about the work here
7:09 | How humans inspire his robots
9:17 | Attacking problems from a different angle
11:20 | Robots that might land on Mars
18:31 | The sun on a medieval shield
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