Researchers are rushing to build AI-powered robots. But will they work?

Chelsea Finn (left) and Moo Jin Kim conduct a demonstration with a robot at Stanford University. Moo Jin Kim/Stanford University

Moo Jin Kim/Stanford University

STANFORD, Calif. — Artificial intelligence can find you a recipe or generate a picture, but it can’t hang a picture on a wall or cook you dinner.

Chelsea Finn wants that to change. Finn, an engineer and researcher at Stanford University, believes that AI may be on the cusp of powering a new era in robotics.

“In the long term we want to develop software that would allow the robots to operate intelligently in any situation,”

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