Q&A: The social roboticist

Jascha Hoffman

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7411, 280-280

Abstract: Maja Matarić, a computer scientist and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, makes robots that assist people with disabilities, children with autism and elderly people — a phenomenon explored in the film Robot and Frank (2012). On the eve of its release, she talks about the future of socially assistive machines.

Date: 2012
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