The Technical University of Munich has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge. A competition for self-racing vehicles. In this podcast Roland Meertens discussies the the event itself, what makes it challenging, and the approach the TU Munich took with Joe Speed, Florian Sauerbeck, and Sebastian Huch. We discuss the importance of simulation, the limits of hardware, and how Docker helps crossing this gap. We end the podcast by discussing the role of open source software when taking on such a challenge. 

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3GlzbPw

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Joe, Florian and Sebastian on the Indy Autonomous Challenge

Why is technology playing such a decisive role in this war? Who is ahead in technological innovation—Ukraine or Russia? How are drones reshaping the battlefield, and how might they also transform technologies of peace? And why must Europe step up its technological cooperation with Ukraine?

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Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian philosopher, editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld, and president of PEN Ukraine.
Guest: Glib Voloskyi, analyst at the Initiatives Centre of Come Back Alive (Povernys zhyvym) — one of Ukraine’s most prominent charitable foundations, supporting the military and veterans since 2014.

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Explaining Ukraine is produced by UkraineWorld, an English-language media project about Ukraine, run by Internews Ukraine.
Listen on various platforms (apple, youtube, spotify, soundcloud, amazon etc): https://li.sten.to/explaining-ukraine  
This episode is also made in partnership with Politeia, a Ukrainian NGO focusing on preparing a new generation of change-makers in Ukraine.

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Your contributions are essential, as we rely heavily on crowdfunding.
You can also help fund our volunteer trips to frontline areas in Ukraine, where we support both soldiers and civilians.
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CONTENTS:
00:00 —  The role of technology in war: who's winning the tech race?
01:34 — Russia’s real strategy: what are the goals? 
02:12 — How Russia miscalculated: failed plans, logistics collapse and retreats
05:52 — The evolving Russian strategy: attrition and imperial ambitions
08:41 — Is this really a “Ukrainian conflict” or is it actually a Russian imperial war?
10:10 — Ukraine’s defence: from resilience to drone innovation
11:32 — The fierce race in drone technology
13:41 — What’s next? Land robots, unmanned vehicles and battlefield robotics
15:07 — Artificial intelligence at war: from target recognition to social media scans
16:40 — Dependency on Chinese tech: risk or overstated concern?
17:54 — Europe’s wake-up call: how possible it is to lose the technological race 
20:33 — Tanks, drones and the future of warfare: what lessons are really learned?
25:24 — NATO partners and military conservatism: who adapts, who resists?
26:19 — Ukraine’s defence industry revival: grassroots innovation vs. scaling up
29:56 — Naval drones, land drones and robotics: Ukraine’s asymmetric advantage
31:37 — The myth of a "wonder weapon" 
37:32 — Human body vs. artificial bodies: why soldiers can’t be replaced
39:01 — Why Russia destroys cities instead of capturing them
40:26 — The hidden battlefield: information wars and internal destabilisation
42:12 — The greatest danger ahead: forced concessions 


Ukraine vs Russia: who leads the tech battle? - with Glib Voloskyi

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StickMan is a minimal but full-body exoskeleton that algorithmically actuates the artist with 6 degrees-of-freedom. It is a gesture generating system capable of 64 possible combinations. Sensors on StickMan generate sounds that augment the pneumatic noise and register the limb movements. The sounds are directed and move across and around a ring of 6 speakers. 

youtu.be/8TUNIUWs9XI 

Sound artist Petros Vouris and Audio engineer/programmer Alwyn Nixon-Lloyd have integrated a series of small contact microphones situated on the moving limbs of STICKMAN with the sounds generated, being treated with Max/MSP on an external computer. The addition of an I.S.U (Inertia Spacialiser Unit) is strung down STICKMAN's spine like a monochord to generate fluctuating waves of sound as STICKMAN's body vibrates with movement. Accelerometers and gyroscopes are attached to each moving limb on STICKMAN's body tracking and moving the sounds generated across a multichannel speaker system, making the sounds themselves an extension of Stickman's body. 

"Taking an ambisonic concept that was then first performed with 6 multi-channel speakers, and then trying to represent that enveloping sound somehow with the limitations of the stereo field of a CD, left us with two primary solutions - zooming out, and going in - from the macro to the micro, dissecting the many long aural fragments from Stickman and Stelarc’s performance into unique specimens rearranged together from their atomised parts and processed spectra.

To undertake this strategy, the table had to be laid out, the body audibly splayed and an integrated system of finely sharpened instruments for splicing, measuring and signal processing were used to take us into the many micro-worlds of Stickman’s aural body. These worlds were more like organisms when isolated, they evolved, mutated and squirmed with life under the watchful ear of the observer- the more we would delve in, the more new forms would emerge." Petros Vouris

STICKMAN: AURAL BODY AUTOPSY 

13.StickMan ReAnimated

11.Corporeal

10.Spinal Fluid

5.Internal Probe

trying to put together something interesting.

Kahlen. - ROBOTICS

Matt Carney is a PhD student in the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab where he is designing and building next generation bionic limbs.  

His specialty in mechanical design engineering was born from years of experience working at the industry leading firms Meka Robotics (humanoids) and IDEO (product design). 

In this interview, Matt discusses his desire to end disability, alongside the ethics of integrating personality in to robotics (and technology in general), and what should and shouldn't be achieved going forward in the industry.

http://www.matthematic.com/

MIT Innovators: Matt Carney [Biomechatronics Design Engineer]

Your hosts Adam and Benicio catch up with Media Team Lead, Connor Le, and ask him a few questions about the team's progress on the Chairman's Award!

Error 404 Podcast S1 Ep. 2: The Chairmen's award

Petros Vouris is a sound artist and composer born in Athens Greece and currently living in Perth Western Australia.  

For more music visit - https://petrosvouris.bandcamp.com/

for more info, music and video visit - www.petrosvouris.com

feel free to befriend me - www.facebook.com/thesoundsofpetrosvouris/

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