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Daniela Rus on Humanoid Robots, Physical AI, and the Future of Robotics
Physical AI is moving fast.
But Daniela Rus says the future of robotics will not be defined by viral humanoid robot demos alone. The real challenge is building robots that can understand the physical world, make safe decisions in real time, and work reliably outside controlled lab environments.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Daniela Rus, Director of MIT CSAIL, about humanoid robots, self-driving cars, embodied AI, on-device AI, robot learning, and why the next wave of artificial intelligence needs to move beyond the cloud and into the physical world.
Daniela explains…
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