A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics
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The article proposes a 'Humanoid Olympics' challenge to roboticists to develop robots that can perform various human-like tasks, sparking discussion on the capabilities and potential applications of humanoid robots.
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Platinum medal: tying shoelaces while a three-month old kitten plays with them.
But that is unlikely to happen. They'll be used for crowd control (which works because they look intimidating) and surveillance. Perhaps they'll also supervise humans that scrub the kitchen floor. Most likely they'll fail entirely.
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