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fromFortune
21 hours ago

An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt Roomba maker iRobot says Elon Musk's vision of humanoid robot assistants is 'pure fantasy thinking' | Fortune

Large investments in humanoid robots are unlikely to produce human-level dexterity because touch sensing and coordination remain fundamentally unsolved and poorly trained.
fromBusiness Insider
6 days ago

CEO of Chinese robotics company posts video of himself getting kicked by his robot in effort to combat skeptics

In a video posted to Instagram, EngineAI CEO Zhao Tongyang geared up in leg, stomach, and head pads. Workers taunted him, asking if he was nervous. The company's T800 robot then appeared to kick Tongyang in the stomach, and he can be seen falling to the ground. "Too violent!" Tongyang said in a translation. "Too brutal!" The video featuring its CEO came after EngineAI posted a separate video of its humanoid robot doing kicks and flips.
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