That's what Maja Mataric set out to learn a few years ago at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab.

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Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".

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Studying artificial intelligence at MIT was her fallback plan.

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In the 1960s, while Don Draper was making a fortune at Sterling Cooper, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nils Nilsson and other visionaries of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford and MIT were imagining a world where computers could think faster and better than people.

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