The best example of a general purpose robot today I think is spot from Boston Dynamics that yellow quadripet that walks around. So we can do that for about at least the last time I heard it was 90 minutes. Yeah there's appendages now that have hands and so it can yeah it's really useful fed robots for a long time but they're very specific. This one you can tune to do lots of different things but it can only do it for 90 minutes. If a walrus is chasing me on the ground on the land. It's not catching me.
Can you give a robot a sense of touch? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, learn about soft robotics, sensors, and understanding human physiology with co-founders of Organic Robotics Corp, Professor Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil.
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