Daniela Rus

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Daniela L. Rus is a Romanian-American computer scientist. She is the MIT Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Rus is known for work in robotics and artificial intelligence, including distributed and networked robotics, self-reconfiguring robot systems, soft and bio-inspired robots, computational design and fabrication, human-robot interaction, autonomous systems, and adaptive machine learning. A recurring theme in her research is the integration of robot bodies, computational intelligence, and physical environments. She has described this direction publicly as Physical AI: artificial intelligence embodied in systems that can sense, move, learn, adapt, and act in the real world in a 2024 TED talk. Her work also includes AI for scientific discovery, including machine-learning and robotics methods for studying nonhuman communication through Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative. Rus has...

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