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We've known about Machine Perception Lab's super-realistic robot baby for quite some time now, but we've never…
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This is really, really, really impressive. The folks at Disney Research Zurich have just unveiled what they call a…
You've got to hand it to Nicole Lazzeri and her colleagues at the University of Pisa for creating the robot you see…
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