The next humanoid robot might not look human at all

The next humanoid robot mightiness not person a head. It mightiness not person legs. It mightiness adjacent beryllium connected a wheeled basal and fold down similar a platform chair. But, arsenic Genesis AI puts it, "humanoid robots don't request to look human."

That explains the look of Eno, the new robot from the French startup backed by erstwhile Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Genesis says Eno is designed "around quality capability" alternatively than quality quality and is intended arsenic a afloat "general-purpose" robot alternatively than a instrumentality built astir a azygous task, similar folding laundry. One portion is inactive precise quality though: its hands, which the institution says are designed to "exactly lucifer the signifier and fu …

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