The robots are coming. And that's a good thing.

Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), isn’t worried that robots will take over the world. Instead, she envisions robots and humans teaming up and achieving things that neither could do alone. In this excerpt from her new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, she explores how they can extend the reach of human capabilities.