Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...
I’m talking about Aria, a highly life-like humanoid robot ... Aria can’t yet walk like other humanoid robots from Agility Robotics, Figure AI, Tesla, and many others: it’s a wheeled platform.
Melody, the artificial intelligence-powered robot, is life-sized and represents a move toward creating robots that resemble people in appearance and interaction.