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We Are Not There Yet: Why Is Humanoid Robotics Hard? [From the Editor’s Desk]

March 18, 2025 by Yi Guo

Building robots that look and behave like humans, capable of operating in environments created and shared by humans, has been a long-standing quest. Today, commercially viable humanoid robots include Digit made by Agility, which is seen in Amazon warehouses recycling empty totes. Atlas made by Boston Dynamics can pick up objects and place them on shelves and can also dance and do backflips. Figure can interact with humans with speech-to-speech reasoning and can grasp apples and place dishes.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10931818

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As the flagship magazine of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) covers the latest developments in robotics and automation. Its scope ranges from cutting-edge technological advances to emerging social, economic, ethical, and policy issues shaping the field.  Published quarterly (March, June, September, and December), RAM features both high-impact original research articles written in an engaging and accessible style, as well as reviews, columns and opinion pieces addressing a wide range of timely topics.

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