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Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction

Science Magazine Podcast

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Semantic Navigation for Assistive Robotics

The applications I'm most excited about are in assistive robotics. To be useful alongside humans, robots need two broad set of skills. One is navigation, moving around under wheels or legs, and the others manipulation interacting with things with their hands. We showed that navigation is already reliable enough for real world deployment in products. And we need to solve at least a subset of mobile manipulation to make robots really useful.

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