In this first episode we interview Dario Floreano, the initiator and editor in chief of Talking Robots, about his motivations for this podcast, and about the roots, the current trends and the future of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Related episodes:

• Robots: Self-Organizing Systems -- 24 February, 2012
• Robots: Collective Coverage and Self-Assembly -- 8 May, 2009
• Talking Robots: Blue Brain Robotics -- 9 May, 2008
• Talking Robots: Social Cockroach Robots -- 21 December, 2007
• Talking Robots: Neural Darwinism and Brain-based Devices -- 23 November, 2007