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#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Getting a PhD in Robotics at CMU

Robotics is still a really young field there's a huge amount of opportunity now that opportunity shifted where something like autonomous driving has moved from being very research and academics driven to being commercial driven. You have to love it enough to go super deep to learn all the things necessary to be super deeply functioning in that area and then contribute to it in a way that hasn't been done before, he says. He also gives his advice for people who are thinking about doing work in artificial intelligence and robotics at CMU Carnegie Mellon University.

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