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Topic: robotics

A robotic hand and a human hand (file image of NASA's Robonaut)
Technology
Monday, 7/6, 10:26 AM

China Pulls Ahead in the Race to Give Robots a Usable Hand

  • The hardest part of building a humanoid robot is not the walking or the talking, it is the hand.
  • A cluster of Chinese firms is now making dexterous robotic hands cheaper and in far greater numbers than Western rivals, reshaping who leads the emerging market for humanoid labor, even as the technology's real limits remain plain.

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