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b'In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matari\\u0107, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics.\\xa0Socially assistive robotics aims to endow robots with the ability to help people through individual non-contact assistance in convalescence, rehabilitation, training, and education. For example, a robot\\xa0could help a child on the autism spectrum to connect to more neurotypical children and could help to motivate a stroke victim to follow their exercise routine for rehabilitation (see the videos below).\\xa0In this interview, Matari\\u0107 discusses the care gap in health care, how her work leverages research in psychology to make robots engaging, and opportunities in socially assistive robotics for entrepreneurship.'