Want a Robot to Walk Like You? Don’t Expect It to Look Human

Editor’s note: This is part of our series HardWIRED: Welcome to the Robotic Future, in which we explore the fascinating machines transforming society. A central tension in robotics is that while humanity created the robot in its image—the classic humanoid biped of sci-fi—those two-legged machines are particularly hard to build. Getting a bipedal robot to …

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