Having robot office helpers could be pretty handy. But today's machines are nowhere close to the smart, free-roaming robots you see in movies. Right now, robots couldn't get around a building without tripping on chairs or getting stuck behind doors.
From Here & Now’s tech partner IEEE Spectrum, Prachi Patel reports on a new bot that will work better in human environments.
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- Prachi Patel, writer for IEEE Spectrum.
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