Daniela L. Rus

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Director of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Leader of Distributed Robotics Laboratory, MIT

Co-founder of Liquid AI, Inc.

Co-founder of Venti Technologies, Inc.

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Projects:

Book "The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots", Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone, 2024

fabricating robots by 3D co-printing solids and liquids

a soft cube capable of controllable continuous jumping

self-folding robots

self-assembling origami robots

 

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IdeasLab 2014 - Daniela Rus - Fabrication in the Digital Age

Published on Mar 4, 2014

Daniela Rus from MIT wants to make everyday robots accessible to everyone. She shares her vision of printable robots that can play with your cat or match you at chess, and says future innovations in digital fabrication will transform manufacturing.

 

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ICRA 2015 Wednesday Plenary: One Robot for Every Task - Daniela Rus, MIT

Published on May 27, 2015

One Robot for Every Task - Daniela Rus, MIT
Plenary - May 27th, 2015

Abstract: The digitization of practically everything coupled with advanced robotics promises a future with democratized use of machines and wide-spread customization. However, pervasive use of robots remains a hard problem. What are the gaps that can take us to a future where robots are common, they figure things out, they operate aware of each other, and they contribute to making the world a better place?
In this talk I will discuss challenges toward pervasive use of robots and recent developments in customizing robots. What if we could automatically design, fabricate, and program robots from an intuitive description of the task so that anyone could use a robot? What if robots could be better at figuring things out? What if robots could be more adept at interacting with each other and with people? I will describe recent results in automating and customizing the fabrication of robots and enhancing their reasoning and communication capabilities. By enabling on-demand creation of programmable robots, we can begin to imagine a world with one robot for every task.
Biography: Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus's research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and big data. The key focus of her research is to develop the science of networked/distributed/collaborative robotics, by asking: how can many machines collaborate to achieve a common goal? Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the NAE. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Prior to joining MIT, Rus was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College.

 

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What's next at MIT with Daniela Rus (MIT CSAIL)

Published on Jul 27, 2017

TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics is a single-day event designed to facilitate in-depth conversation and networking with the technologists, researchers and students of the robotics community as well as the founders and investors bringing innovation to the masses.

 

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Daniela Rus: How to embrace a robotic future

Published on Oct 31, 2017

Roboticist and head of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Laboratory explains how to get people and robots ready to work in a world full of smart machines.

 

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"Vecna Robotics Appoints AI Scientist Daniela Rus to Board of Directors"
Robotics and AI Expert Brings Nearly Two Decades of Experience and Shared Vision for Improving Machine and Human Collaboration

July 1, 2020

Vecna Technologies, Inc.

 

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How AI will step off the screen and into the real world | Daniela Rus | TED

Apr 20, 2024

The convergence of AI and robotics will unlock a wonderful new world of possibilities in everyday life, says robotics and AI pioneer Daniela Rus. Diving into the way machines think, she reveals how "liquid networks" — a revolutionary class of AI that mimics the neural processes of simple organisms — could help intelligent machines process information more efficiently and give rise to "physical intelligence" that will enable AI to operate beyond digital confines and engage dynamically in the real world.

 

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The World at MIT: Daniela Rus

Jun 5, 2024

Fulfilling a school requirement by working in a Romanian locomotive factory one week each month, Daniela Rus learned to operate “machines that help us make things.” Appreciation for the practical side of math and science stuck with Daniela, who is now Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

“The World at MIT” videos underscore MIT’s distinctive nature as a community that is at once profoundly American and deeply connected to the world. In brief, three-minute interviews, faculty members recount the experiences and circumstances that drew them here and how and why they came to adopt MIT as their professional home.