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Stanford Hopes To Push Technology Forward With New Robotics Center

Oussama Khatib is the director of the Stanford Robotics Center. He said when he first discovered robotics, he fell in love with it.

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November 12, 2024

The new Stanford Robotics Center, which will be developing machines for future use in medicine, the arts, ocean and space exploration and your own home, recently opened its doors for the first time.

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Oussama Khatib is the director of the Stanford Robotics Center. He said when he first discovered robotics, he fell in love with it.

"We built this machine that can be diving very deep, but at the same time interacting with human divers," said Khatib as he gestured to the underwater robot OceanOneK. Stanford's humanoid diving robot is the only one like it in the world.

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