I like to think of a world where more mundane routine tasks are taken off your plate. Maybe garbage cans that take themselves out and smart infrastructure to ensure that they disappear, or robots that will fold your laundry.
DIRECTOR OF MIT CSAIL
Daniela Rus is the Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, one of the world’s largest research organizations focused on AI and robotics. Daniela is a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy for Arts and Science. Daniela leads research in robotics, mobile computing, and data science.
MARTIN FORD: Let’s start by talking about your background and looking at how you became interested in AI and robotics.
DANIELA RUS: I’ve always been interested in science and science fiction, and when I was a kid I read all the popular science fiction books at the time. I grew up in Romania where we didn’t have the range of media...