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When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the new area of socially assistive robotics. As an associate professor of computer science, neuroscience, and pediatrics at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, she…

In Brief: Hotel industry coverage is centered on operators using artificial intelligence more deeply across core functions, as large groups move from pilot programs to enterprise-wide deployment in areas such as distribution, finance and franchise support. At the same time, competition is increasingly shaped by platform power and partnership-led scale,…