Full Interview: The Future of AI and Us

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Jul 30, 202601:08:41Science & Medicine

Daniela Rus brings robots and AI together, and as a computer scientist and roboticist at MIT, she's here to set the record straight. She's not just studying AI from the outside. She's building it, and finding ways to mak...

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