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Recent Examples of humanlike
LLMs are so seemingly humanlike, people envision computers replacing all customer service agents, summarizing or answering questions about a collection of thousands of documents, taking on the wholesale role of a data scientist or even making a company’s executive decisions.
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Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Film, vibration, sound and light converge around a faceless, humanlike figure moving through shifting states of existence.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
Through teleoperation, the robot demonstrates precise, humanlike hand control in a variety of manipulation tasks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2026
The company claims Moya can replicate human micro-expressions, a feature that places it among the most humanlike robots currently under development.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
Still, more information about the lower body is needed to learn exactly where the species fits into the evolution of humanlike posture and gait.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment—the coming of humanlike artificial general intelligence, China’s accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first—more clearly than anyone else.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Film, vibration, sound and light converge around a faceless, humanlike figure moving through shifting states of existence.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
Through teleoperation, the robot demonstrates precise, humanlike hand control in a variety of manipulation tasks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2026
The company claims Moya can replicate human micro-expressions, a feature that places it among the most humanlike robots currently under development.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
Still, more information about the lower body is needed to learn exactly where the species fits into the evolution of humanlike posture and gait.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment—the coming of humanlike artificial general intelligence, China’s accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first—more clearly than anyone else.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanlike
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Adaptive warehouse worker D7 is a semi-humanoid robot designed to evolve through real-world experience rather than relying solely on pre-programmed capabilities.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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As the partnership begins, Catalyst Brands and Figure say will identify the optimal use cases for humanoid automation across their operations.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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And that it’s all tied together with the messy, fraught and sometimes ridiculous experience of being human.—
Alexandra Oliva
June 1,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The complaint alleges the defendants failed to manufacture, supply and serve food safe for human consumption and violated federal food safety laws and USDA performance standards governing ground beef.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Over ten million years ago, long before the human species existed, our hominid ancestors adapted to metabolize alcohol.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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The team used laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS), a technique that uses direct micro-scale sampling to provide high-precision elemental and isotope analyses of solid materials, to scan Neanderthal molars and other hominid fossils.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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