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Robotics research. Student working with a robot at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI Lab, Massachusetts, USA. The MIT AI (artificial intelligence) Lab is a leading research laboratory dedicated to robotics and artificial intelligence. It split from the computing science department in the late 1960s and went on to develop a number of famous robots and produce several generations of roboticists. As of 2003, it has re-merged to form the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/SAM OGDEN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)