A PhD student who followed the work of Professor Rosalind Picard at MIT had a life changing meeting with her that led to a postdoc job offer.
The speaker shares their experience visiting the Boston Dynamics Robotics Lab and seeing multiple robots in one place, unlike most robotics labs. They comment on the lab's drive to try big and crazy things, yet still take projects to completion for demos.
The speaker discusses the feeling of life and personality imbued in a Spot robot wearing a cowboy hat that was seen walking down a hallway, and the speaker's son's dream of creating a robot-inhabited island.