Robotics Expert Predicts Humanoid Robots May Never Be Mainstream
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An MIT roboticist and cofounder of iRobot criticizes the current focus on humanoid robots as impractical and overly ambitious, arguing that significant investment in their development is wasted due to the complexity of human touch and dexterity, and predicts future robots will look very different from humans.
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