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Episode Forty-Two: Thom Kirwan-Evans

Robot Talk · 24 Mar 2023 · 29m · Episode 42

What this episode covers

Thom Kirwan-Evans, co-founder of Origami Labs, discusses applying AI and computer vision to industrial robotics, drawing on his background at DSTL and Phasor Nash Consultancy. He details defense applications like the DASA autonomous last-mile resupply program, focusing on scale, speed, and separation, while highlighting the critical gap in current 'smart' systems regarding true autonomy and trust. Kirwan-Evans also explains technical challenges in low-power drone vision, specifically using Google Coral TPUs to optimize neural networks for high-speed, low-false-alarm object detection. Finally, he contrasts the near-term impact of soft robotics with the complex, emergent nature of swarm robotics and the associated safety case difficulties.

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early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Origami Labs, Dstl, Phasor Nash Consultancy
Products
ChatGPT, Dali
Chips
Google Coral TPU
Also
DASA

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