( ) -q-16- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “keeping at it.” The latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid. But as correspondent Jeremy House reports, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical. [CutID: <Cuts> UMANOID-ROBOTS-house-q-MONam.mp3 Time: 16s Title: UMANOID-ROBOTS-house-q-MONam Out-cue: keeping at it] TAG: […]
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Humanoid robots are here, but they’re a little awkward
( ) -q-16- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “keeping at it.”
The latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid. But as correspondent Jeremy House reports, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical.
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TAG: One of the startups, Agility Robotics, has caught the attention of Amazon, which is testing out its Digit robot for warehouse work.
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VERBATIM: Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. However, humanoids tend to look better in staged performances than in real life. That hasn’t stopped a handful of startups from keeping at it.