In this podcast we interview Robin Murphy who is a founder and international leader in both rescue robotics and human-robot interaction, and was recognized by TIME Magazine in 2004 as an innovator in artificial intelligence. As the Director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) at the University of South Florida she was the first to introduce ground, air, and sea robots to disaster response, participating in the World Trade Center disaster (2001), La Conchita, CA, mudslides (2005), Hurricanes Charley (2004), Dennis (2005), Katrina (2005), and Wilma (2005), and the Newmont Midas (2007) and Crandall Canyon (2007) mine disasters.

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• Robots: Demining and Defusing -- 15 July, 2011
• Robots: Autonomous Vehicles -- 5 November, 2010
• Robots: R&D at iRobot -- 2 July, 2010
• Robots: 50 Years of Robotics (Part 2) -- 7 May, 2010
• Robots: From Animals to Automation -- 3 July, 2009