Hi, this is Flor Lichtenen, and you're listening to Science Friday.

Today in the podcast, a conversation from our live show in Redwood City, California.

Ira's talking AI and what it means for humanoid robots.

The conversation part is, it feels very amazing, but it's actually the easiest part.

You know, robots are just about everywhere these days. Maybe you've spotted one circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport,

making deliveries, not to mention the robots on the assembly lines and factories, but what about

having your own robot in your own home? How far are we from having a human-like robot at home?

Joining me now to talk about the latest advances in humanoid robots is my guest.

Dr. Karen Lio, professor of computer science at Stanford University, based, of course, in

Stanford, California.

Welcome to Science Friday.

Thank you, Ira.

Nice to be here today.

Now, you developed and trained humanoid robots. What is the definition of a humanoid? How do you define one?

Well, there's really no universal consensus on the definition of humanoid. But I think most people would agree that,

you know, humanoid should have a similar morphology to humans. That means you should have

two legs for locomotion, two hands for manipulations, and you need to be able to have egocentric

vision system so you can navigate the world you could interact with

objects in the world now I understand not just talking about you've actually

brought one yeah right we actually build a humanoid's from scratch at

Stanford toddy toddy as we call a toddler bot because it's model off of a

human toddler it's very small call a toddler bot because it's model off of a human toddler.

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