Humanoids dance and thread needles as Japanese robotics developers look to outdo Chinese
TOKYO (AP) — Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened. Among the dozens of companies taking part, including well-known players like Boston Dynamics and Toyota Motor Corp. , the big stars now were clearly the Chinese. Chinese newcomers, like Booster Robotics and LimX Dynamics, took the technology initially developed in Japan and the U. S. and it, for...
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