#287: Robonomics Platform: Integrating Robots into the Economy, with Aleksandr Kapitonov

Kapitonov discusses the advantages of using blockchain, use cases including a fully autonomous vending machine, and the Robonomics technology stack. Below are two videos showing the Robonomics Platform in action via a fully autonomous robot artist and drones for environmental monitoring. Aleksandr Kapitonov is a "robot economics" academic society progressor at Airalab (the team behind Robonomics Platform), an assistant professor of Control Systems and Robotics at ITMO University, and regional coordinator of the Erasmus IOT-OPEN.EU project for researching and developing IoT education practices. His research focuses on navigation, computer vision, control of mobile robots and communication for multi-agents systems.