The quirky robot is a notable departure from the more unsettling machines that typically make headlines today.
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Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
27 Aug. 2026
The pace of improvement in AI models has led many observers to predict that human intelligence may soon be overtaken by the cognitive capacity of machines.
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