# Episode 80: Resilient robot teams - Danesh Tarapore

- Show: [Robot Talk](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk)
- Published: 2024-04-12
- Length: 30m
- Episode: 80
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore
- Listen: https://ukrobotics.libsyn.com/episode-eighty-danesh-tarapore

## Summary

Danesh Tarapore, an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, explains how his team uses bio-inspired algorithms to make robot swarms resilient through fault detection and recovery. He details an adaptive immune system model for detecting faults and a distributed trial-and-error approach for recovery, drawing analogies to human motor learning and social insect division of labor. The discussion covers the transition from controlled lab environments to real-world applications, specifically designing sparse, low-cost ground robots for forest monitoring and wave gliders for marine hurricane tracking.

## Chapters

- [0:08](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore#t=8) Introduction: Robot Talk and Danesh Tarapore
- [2:31](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore#t=151) Adaptive immune system model for fault detection
- [7:37](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore#t=457) Distributed recovery strategies and trial-and-error
- [12:20](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore#t=740) Division of labor and sparse swarm concepts
- [19:54](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore#t=1194) Forest monitoring: robot design and navigation challenges
- [24:31](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/robot-talk/2024-04-12-episode-80-resilient-robot-teams-danesh-tarapore#t=1471) Marine applications: wave gliders and hurricane tracking

## Topics

- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Sensors & measurement in products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sensors)
- [Wireless & RF](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/wireless-and-rf)
- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- University of Southampton (company)
- Nature magazine (other)
- Raspberry Pi (chip)
- wave gliders (product)

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- [49. What Robots Can Learn from Starfish and Falcons](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2021-12-21-49-what-robots-can-learn-from-starfish-and-falcons) (The Next Byte Podcast)
- [103. Ant Inspired Swarm Robots](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2023-01-03-103-ant-inspired-swarm-robots) (The Next Byte Podcast)
- [133. Mighty Morphing All Terrain Robots Made By Nature](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2023-08-01-133-mighty-morphing-all-terrain-robots-made-by-nature) (The Next Byte Podcast)
- [222. Tree-Climbing and Reef-Restoring Robots](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2025-06-17-222-tree-climbing-and-reef-restoring-robots) (The Next Byte Podcast)
- [301: Giant Novelty Check](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2019-08-29-301-giant-novelty-check) (Embedded.fm)

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