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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Roboticist Sebastian Thrun on taking chances to save lives

Sebastian Thrun knows that true innovation demands risk: the winner of DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge took more than a few technological gambles to create an SUV that could drive itself across the Mojave Desert. He spoke to us about his love of that uncertainty--and of creating robots that might save lives.

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