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AI Robots

NOVA Now by GBH

Jul 23, 202623:28Science & Medicine

Daniela Rus has built a robot you can swallow, and that is one of the less surprising things her lab is working on. At MIT's CSAIL, she is leading research at the frontier where artificial intelligence meets the physical...

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AI Robots is an episode from NOVA Now by GBH. Daniela Rus has built a robot you can swallow, and that is one of the less surprising things her lab is working on. At MIT's CSAIL, she is leading research at the frontier where artificial intel...

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