Daniela Rus is a former MacArthur Fellow and the Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. On this episode of the PFF Podcast, Daniela talks with Jeffrey about how her work is enabling a future in which smart machines are fully integrated into the fabric of life, supporting people as they perform a wide array of cognitive and physical tasks. She talks about her interest in the integration of robotics into everyday life and rethinking what a robot is, both in terms of its form, its morphology, its function, what it can accomplish and the materials that it can be made of.