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Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

ROBOTS HAVE LONG BEEN seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can move their mechanical bodies like humans and do things that people do. Alaoui, founder […]

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