Big Picture Science – We Heart Robots: What ARE Robots?

by Gary Niederhoff on January 21, 2013

Part 2 of We Heart Robots, featuring Illah Nourbakhsh, Professor of robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, author of Robot Futures, providing context to discern what defines a robot. Check out his Robot Futures blog.
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