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A Fanuc robot demonstrates its reach and dexterity by handling a basketball at the Automate Show in Detroit on May 24.
PHOTO: NYTIMES
A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit, walked upright on goat-like legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made of aerospace-grade aluminium. It then placed the boxes on an assembly line and walked back to the shelf to search for more.
The crowd at a recent trade show wondered if, at some point, the robot would teeter and fall. It did not.
