Kate Darling
Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Kate Darling is a leading expert in the evolving role of robotics in everyday life, serving as a research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab and a lead for ethics & society at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Her groundbreaking studies on social robotics and human-robot interaction explore the emotional bonds people form with lifelike machines. Her work is shaping and guiding technology design and public policy decisions on the evolving relationships between humans and robots, tackling the pressing questions engineers, lawmakers, and society must address in the coming years.