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Dr. Maja Mataric
Season 2 Episode 5
USC Professor Mataric is developing robots that will work in healthcare. She discusses how robots were first created to do dirty, dull and dangerous jobs and how today, robots are being used assist individuals with medical needs such as stroke patients and children with autism.
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Maja Mataric: Augmentation vs. Automation
Maja Mataric, USC Robotics Expert, explains how robots can enhance and help people do their job instead of taking them away.
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Maja Mataric: Augmentation vs. Automation
Maja Mataric, USC Robotics Expert, explains how robots can enhance and help people do their job instead of taking them away.
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Maja Mataric: The Past and Future of Robots
Maja Mataric, USC Robotics Expert, explains how robots have evolved from doing “dirty, dull and dangerous jobs” to becoming socially assistive robots that can care for people.
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Maja Mataric: Robots that Care
Maja Mataric, USC Robotics Expert, discusses developing robots that have the potential to help autistic children with social skills while also helping people engage with one another.
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Building Healthy Communities is a 10-year, one-billion-dollar initiative that hopes to transform 14 California Communities. Two local residents taking action are Lucy Herrera, of Boyle Height and Karla Ortiz of East LA.
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Building Healthy Communities is a 10-year, one-billion-dollar initiative that hopes to transform 14 California Communities. Two local residents taking action to change their communities are Lucy Herrera, of Boyle Height and Karla Ortiz of East LA.
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Adam Steltzner, JPL Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 Project, remembers the “seven minutes of terror” when the Curiosity Rover landed on the Martian surface in 2012.
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Adam Steltzner, JPL Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 Project, explains the Mars 2020 Project and how NASA plans to collect and store samples from the Martian surface.
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Lucy Herrera and Karla Ortiz, two young women making a difference in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
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The South L.A. Transit Empowerment Zone, or Slate-Z, has been racking up victories in funding economic opportunity programs since receiving designation last year as a Promise Zone.
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Rising rents. Stagnant wages. Homelessness. Gentrification. Today's big stories in Los Angeles have a common thread: a gap in social and economic equity. A report found that L.A. has the 7th highest level of income inequality in the country.
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John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave” continues to tackle subjects that are relevant to today’s America. The unstoppable Ridley is now working on a comic book sequel, “The American Way: Those Above and Those Below.”
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Universal basic income remains a cutting edge idea concept and certainly has its share of detractors, but the idea has also perked up the ears of some highly influential people.
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After spending years behind bars, Susan Burton entered a treatment center in Santa Monica, this motivated her to fight for social justice and help other women transition from prison back to their communities.
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