MIT Technology Review March 5, 2024
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The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing.
—This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus
Robots are an incredible way to enhance and extend the reach of human capabilities. In 2009, I worked with the biologist Roger Payne to use camera-mounted drones to study whales and their life spans.
The same drone was used to study uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, so they...
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