Seth Teller

After a PhD in Computer Science at Berkeley, and postdoctoral stints at Hebrew University and Princeton, Seth Teller joined MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Department (EECS), and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in 1994. There, his group develops machines that work closely alongside people in health-care, military, civilian, and disaster-relief settings. His recent projects include: wearable devices that provide task- salient information about nearby terrain, objects, text and people; a self-driving car; an unmanned semi- autonomous forklift; a voice-commandable robotic wheel-chair; and a humanoid robot that performs dangerous tasks while people help from a distance.