Robots - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Walsh spoke about creating wearable robotic equipment to help people with physical disabilities, and HBS professor Lauren H. Cohen outlined research focusing on “patent trolls” that sue cash-rich companies for patent violations. Ongoing... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

play. It wasn’t clear if, or how, a movie would ever fit into this point of view. When Lin first approached Lego, the company hedged, asking him to consider working on a specific play theme like Lego’s robot line Bionicle—making the Lego... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2018
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Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

something new, which shows that you can’t create a computerized system with all the answers, not yet. There are human factors and emotions involved beyond the probability statistics. But that’s what makes this work fascinating—otherwise we would have View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

Cisco Systems, Netscape, Wired magazine, and the Palm Computing division of U.S. Robotics - hosted ninety-minute information sessions at their companies. CEOs and other senior managers, including some company founders, presented the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

investment outlook in the region, and was moderated by Blair Pickerell (MBA 1984), Former Chairman, Asia of Nikko Asset Management and Chairman of Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. Robotics concept wins HBSAHK Startup... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

podcast with a woman from the National Air and Space Museum talking about how we really need to send people to Mars to collect rocks and better understand evolution. “And I’m thinking, ‘Why can’t we send a robot to Mars to collect the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

well portrayed in the news necessarily. And I also think-- I think, unfortunately, the media likes to take a clickbaity spin on a subject. Oh, AI, like the evil overlord robots are coming to steal your job, right? We were at TED last... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

works. The book is available at no cost to climate outreach and education organizations. Unfettered Journey By Gary F. Bengier (MBA 1981) Chiliagon Press Unfettered Journey is the story of Joe Denkensmith, an AI scientist who seeks to create true View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

and other medical supplies for New Hampshire health care workers and then worked with FedEx and the State to get them delivered. “Dean Kamen is the hero today,” Senator Jeanne Shaneen told the New Hampshire Union Leader. Cobalt Robotics... View Details

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