Mary Bates, PhD

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Our Robotic Future

NASA/JPL-Caltech [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

In my latest "Beyond the Gates" piece for the Brown Alumni Magazine, I profile Ayanna Howard '93, director of the Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS) at Georgia Tech. Howard’s lab focuses on how humans and robots interact. Much of this work involves humanized intelligence, the process of imbuing autonomous systems with human cognitive capabilities.  

Read the story here: The Ideal Robot.