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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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