Steve LeVine reports on the future of humanoid robots in The Electric newsletter, including the recent research partnership between Toyota Research Institute and Boston Dynamics.

"Gill Pratt, CEO of TRI, told me that new advances in AI may make it possible to train humanoid robots to handle numerous mechanical tasks, even those they haven't explicitly been taught to do," LeVine wrote. "The next challenge, Pratt said, is training robots to piece together discrete skills picked up in different tasks to handle a situation they have never seen before."

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