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fromFuturism
1 day ago

Video Shows Man Bleeding After Flailing Robot Kicks Him in Nose

Unitree G1 robots can thrash unpredictably after falls, causing human injuries and revealing urgent safety flaws in their reinforcement-learning recovery policies.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Robot Servants Are Coming. Would You Want One?

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child's room, picking up scattered objects, depositing toys on shelves and tucking away dirty laundry. And in a factory, mechanical hands may assemble a next-generation smartphone from its first fragile component to the finishing touch.
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fromArs Technica
4 months ago

Why iRobot's founder won't go within 10 feet of today's walking robots

Bipedal humanoid robots pose significant safety and certification challenges; practical future humanoids will instead use wheels, varied manipulators, and nonhuman sensors.
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