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Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, roboticist and Georgia Tech professor Ayanna Howard explores the complex intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI) and ethics within safety-critical systems. Drawing on her background at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working with surgical robots in …
Lex Fridman
Anca Dragan, a professor at UC Berkeley and consultant for Waymo, shares her journey into robotics, which began not with an immediate passion but through a gradual shift from mathematics to computer science during her time in Romania. Initially drawn to optimization theory as a practical application …
Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, researcher Kate Darling explores the definition and future of robots through a historical lens involving animals. She argues that defining robots strictly by their resemblance to humans—specifically in humanoid form—is counterproductive because it creates …