We really enjoyed meeting Francesca Rossi and her robot friend at Radcliffe last may. Francesca is a computer science professor at the University of Padova in Italy and her research focuses on artificial intelligence.
She introduced us to Pierre, a NAO humanoid robot made by French companyAldebaran. Pierre is designed to be a companion for elderly people, children, and others needing help around the house. Francesca borrowed Pierre for the day to show him off at the Radcliffe Fellows certificate ceremony for the 50 fellows.
We interviewed Francesca briefly as part of a new video we are producing for the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard - a signature video that the institute will use for their capital campaign.
In 2012 we produced a series of 10 videos which included portraits of fellows Radhika Nagpal and Douglas Rogers.