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Mar 2025
13m 20s

Humanoid Robots Are Getting Real Jobs

The Wall Street Journal
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Once the creatures of science fiction, robots with human-like bodies and artificial-intelligence brains are getting jobs at warehouses and factories stacking, sorting and lifting. WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims explains what it’ll take to get these bots from warehouses to homes. And, we’ll find out how underused GPU chips could open up new ways to train AI models without massive data centers. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts.


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