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Are Robots About to Level Up?

Are Robots About to Level Up?

Update: 2024-08-151
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Within just a few years, artificial intelligence systems that sometimes seem to display almost human characteristics have gone from science fiction to apps on your phone. But there’s another AI-influenced frontier that is developing rapidly and remains untamed: robotics. Can the technologies that have helped computers get smarter now bring similar improvements to the robots that will work alongside us? 

In this episode, Daniela Rus, a pioneering roboticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks to host Steven Strogatz about the surprising inspirations from biology that may help robots rise to new levels.

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Are Robots About to Level Up?

Are Robots About to Level Up?

Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine