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Mr Wali Malik, a robotics engineer, left his job in Massachusetts in 2025 to lead a new lab in Vienna, Austria.
PHOTO" DAVID PAYR/NYTIMES
Vivienne Walt
WASHINGTON - In March 2025, Mr Wali Malik, a robotics engineer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a call from a research institution in Austria, a country where he had never been and knew no one.
Mr Malik recalled the man saying: “‘Hey, we have this position to build an institute from scratch, on AI and life sciences’.”
