Month: December 2018

  • The robots are coming. Will they work with us? | Miles O'Brien Productions

    The robots are coming. Will they work with us?

    In the latest installment of our Future of Work series, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien visits MIT’s Interactive Robotics Laboratory to understand the “new species” of robots scientists are designing to work alongside humans safely. Though the devices often excel at repetitive tasks, will they be able to function just as well in dynamic…

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  • How and why we’re sampling asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team | Miles O'Brien Productions

    How and why we’re sampling asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team

    Help us improve this podcast: take our short survey. How did our early solar system form? What are the origins of life? How likely are we to get hit by a dangerous asteroid? A daring NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx hopes to find the answers to these big questions at an asteroid named Bennu. This week,…

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