What can we create to benefit society?

 
“We develop technology that will give people happiness,” Hong said. “We don’t do work just because we have research funding; we don’t do work because it’s just fun. We only do work when it can actually have an impact on society.”
— ALLISON ONG, Professor guides students in innovating robots that benefit society

If your robot doesn’t fall and break, you don’t learn anything
— DENNIS HONG, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA