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Agility co-founder: physics is key, AI can't fix bad hardware

Some think humanoid hardware will become a commodity and software will do the rest. Agility's co-founder and Chief Robot Officer Jonathan Hurst argues the opposite: get the physics wrong, and no amount of AI makes up for it. His paper appears in @ScienceMagazine @aaas.

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