MIT Technology Review September 12, 2023
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Lerrel Pinto says the key to building useful home robots is helping them learn from their mistakes.

Lerrel Pinto is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35.

Asked to explain his work, Lerrel Pinto, 31, likes to shoot back another question: When did you last see a cool robot in your home? The answer typically depends on whether the person asking owns a robot vacuum cleaner: yesterday or never.

Pinto’s working to fix that. A computer science researcher at New York University, he wants to see robots in the home that do a lot more than vacuum: “How do we actually create robots that can be a more integral part of our lives,...

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