[Mitworld] New: Dava Newman on Explorations to Mars, Cynthia Breazeal on Personal Robots

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 7 | October 21, 2008
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[A NEW AGE OF EXPLORATION: FROM EARTH TO MARS]

Dava Newman's decades studying human physiology and performance in
extreme environments may prove key not just to the success of reaching
Mars this century, but to improving the quality of life for people
disabled by disease or accident on Earth.

SPEAKER:
Dava Newman, SM '89, PhD '92
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Director of Technology and Policy Program and MacVicar Faculty Fellow


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/601/>

[QUOTE]
"We can get people to Mars safely, keep them alive. We may have to
accept that maybe everyone doesn't come back alive. That's just the
business of exploration. When we first went to Antarctica and all around
the world, we didn't bring back all the crews."
-- Dava Newman


EVENT HOST: Alumni Association <http://alum.mit.edu/>

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[PERSONAL ROBOTS]

Cynthia Breazeal's eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to
have stepped out of Santa's North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you
to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent
machines "whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having
a mind," and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical
interactions.

SPEAKER:
Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00
LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/602/>

[QUOTE]
"In the past, robots were seen as tools. There's a new sort of work:
What if robots can be partners who do things with us as partners, or
teammates? How do we coordinate human minds and bodies with robot minds
and bodies?"
-- Cynthia Breazeal


EVENT HOST: Alumni Association <http://alum.mit.edu/>

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