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The path of foundational research in robotics

Martial Hebert is the director of the Robotics Institute and dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. We spoke with him at the O’Reilly AI Conference in New York in April 2019, where he delivered a keynote talk, ‘AI and the robotics revolution’, and in a follow-up conversation.

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Jerde, T. The path of foundational research in robotics. Nat Mach Intell 2, 153–154 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-0163-8

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