The Body We Give the Machine

For most of the history of artificial intelligence, the machine had no body. We encountered it through a screen, a keyboard, a search box or a recommendation engine. Even when the technology affected our behavior, it remained physically elsewhere. Humanoid robotics changes that relationship completely. Intelligence is no longer only something we consult. It can stand beside us, approach us, occupy a doorway, turn toward us, follow us through a room and eventually touch the same objects we do. That makes embodiment more than an engineering problem.

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