Fireside with Drs. Rodney Brooks and Marcus Weldon

Technology can change the status quo environment

• I.e. Our cities are built around automobiles: J-walking laws and traffic lights

Moral questions for robotic systems need to be hashed out

Testing of autonomous vehicles in campus

COVID-19 is changing our environment too - restaurant seatings online; less travel and more open to video calls

Advice for Interns:

• Read widely - outside of your area

• Say yes to every experience of interacting, thinking about new problems, going to a conference

• Its hard to make great contributions if you are wrong (don't be afraid to try out things) - aim big

• You maybe wrong 14 times before the right try

• Do good (in a sustainable collaborative way)