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May 5, 2025

US robot makers hope to beat China in humanoid race

  • Geopolitical uncertainty may affect the complicated array of parts that go into advanced robots.
    • By MATT O'BRIEN
    AP Technology Writer

    Agility Robotics image [enlarge]
    Oregon-based Agility Robotics is starting to deploy its humanoid robot, called Digit.

    BOSTON — Tariffs weren't on the agenda of last week's Robotics Summit, where thousands of tech industry workers mingled with humanoid and other robot varieties and talked about how to build and sell a new generation of increasingly autonomous machines.


     
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