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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Karen Liu: How robots perceive the physical world
Description: Stanford’s Karen Liu is a computer scientist who works in robotics. She hopes that someday machines might take on caregiving roles, like helping medical patients get dressed and undressed each day. That quest has provided her a special insight into just what a monumental challenge such seemingly simple tasks are. After all, she points out, it takes a human child several years to learn to dress themselves — imagine what it takes to teach a robot to help a person who is frail or physically compromised?Liu is among a growing coterie of scientists who are promoting “physic...