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This humanoid robot does all your housework for you — and its makers say it's ready for your home
Panther has been filmed doing basic household chores, like making the bed and cooking breakfast.
They may seem like scenes out of a slapstick comedy, but viral robot mishaps are no laughing matter — experts even warn they could foreshadow a “Terminator”-level apocalypse. A humanoid dance bot was recently performing for patrons at the Haidilao hotpot restaurant in San Jose,
Chinese robotics company Unitree recently showed off its H1 humanoid robot running at around 10 metres per second. In one test, the robot even clocked 10.1 m/s on a speed-measuring device, although the company noted there could be a small margin of error.
Robots such as Boston Dynamic’s four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses. Those improvements come courtesy of Google DeepMind’s newest robotic AI model that aims to enhance robotic capabilities for ‘embodied reasoning’ when interacting with physical environments.