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As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence continue, efforts to make robots less creepy and unsettling and more friendly and human-like are a coveted niche of development. Now, federally funded researchers claim to have created a robot that can mimic the facial expressions of the person that it is talking to.

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The robot barista at MUJI
Jarvis, the robot barista, can be found in four Muji stores in North America.
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Figure AI's humanoid robot standing
Figure AI announced it had signed a collaboration agreement with OpenAI.
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A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car carrying no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained.

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One of Waymo’s driverless cars collided with a cyclist in San Francisco this week because it apparently didn’t see the human until it was too late.

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Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian, shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an

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Photo of Tesla's humanoid robot called Optimus. It has white body parts and an all-black head with a blue light
The prototype for Optimus was first revealed in September 2022.