47 somewhere. Mirsky’s lab is also working on ways to enable its robodog to communicate information to their owners, like the fact of a new store opening on a daily walking route. If anything, concludes Mirksy, the challenge will be to train the robodog not to bother its owner with too many options or too much information—rather, to recognize the line between being helpful and being a pest. Is that even something a robot can learn? “You’d be surprised,” laughs Mirsky, “at what we’re realizing we can teach robots to do.” Golda, the seeing-eye robot constructed by the Goal Optimization using Learning and Decision-Making (GOLD) Lab, was built by the robotics company Boston Dynamics and purchased with a grant from the Israel Innovation Authority. It is currently the leading robot of its type in Israeli academia, and the leading quadruped robot in theworld. Dr. Reuth Mirsky
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