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Leslie Kaelbling, a roboticist and professor at MIT, traces her passion for artificial intelligence back to reading *Gödel, Escher, Bach* in high school, which sparked an interest in how simple primitives combine to create complex behaviors. Her academic journey began with a philosophy degree from S …
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Vijay Kumar, a distinguished roboticist and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, reflects on his journey from building massive hydraulic hexapods in the 1980s to pioneering agile micro aerial vehicles (UAVs). His early work involved coordinating eighteen independent joints u …
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In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast #55, comedian and neurology enthusiast Whitney Cummings explores her recent Netflix special *Can I Touch It?*, which features a robot named Bear Claw—a life-sized replica of herself designed to examine societal fears regarding artificial intelligence. Cummings …
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In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Sergey Levine, a professor at Berkeley and leading researcher in robotics and machine learning, explores the profound gap between state-of-the-art robots and humans. He illustrates that while hardware limitations can be overcome with engineering investment …
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Rodney Brooks, a pioneering roboticist and former head of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), reflects on his journey from childhood curiosity sparked by *Wonder Books* to building early learning systems using ice cube trays as neural networks. He discusses the mec …
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Marc Raibert, founder and former CEO of Boston Dynamics, traces his passion for robotics back to 1974 when he encountered a disassembled VIK arm at MIT's AI Lab, an experience that shifted him from cognitive science toward the tangible possibilities of building machines. His early philosophy was roo …