Losing functionality in your arms greatly disrupts your life by making day-to-day activities a struggle. Imagine a cyborg-like solution that actuates your arm and hand. Sounds futuristic? Andrew Harlan works at Myomo, a company that brings this to reality TODAY.

Myomo is a Boston-based company that creates electrically actuated braces for people who can no longer fully use their arms, such as after suffering a stroke. We join Andrew Harlan on his journey from studying at MIT to being Director of Engineering at this innovative company in the field of medical robotics.

In this second episode we will peek behind the scenes at Lely, a company that fuses robotics into the lives of people working in agriculture. Joram van der Sluis recently graduated from TU Delft. He will tell us about how he got to where he is now: developing innovative robotic solutions at the R&D department of Lely.

In this very first episode of the Asimov Podcast we have a chat with Martijn Wisse. Martijn is a professor at the TU Delft and he will explain the ins and outs of an academic career. Let's learn more about how he came to be where he is now. How do start-ups fit into his story? How did Robotics came into existence at TU Delft? What is Martijn's vision for the future of robotics? Listen and find out!