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What a robot is has changed completely: in 2000 it was a blind, caged arm; today it sees, walks warehouse aisles beside people, assists surgeons, and drives passengers. Whole categories that were not ...

Rodney Brooks, famous for the Roomba, argues the humanoid robot craze in Silicon Valley is doomed to fail. Rodney Brooks, famous for the Roomba, argues the humanoid robot craze in Silicon Valley is ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

Robot news has been coming fast and furious this month. One robot won a half-marathon in Beijing. Others captured a Russian position on the battlefield in Ukraine. And last week, we learned of a ...

A childhood raffle promised a wristwatch that turned into a robot. Decades later, physical AI is delivering something far bigger, and far more complicated.

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