Why Facebook Is Teaching A Bug-like Robot To Walk

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Mon, 05/20/2019 - 5:47am

Why Facebook is teaching a bug-like robot to walk

In a rooftop garden at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, a six-legged robot named Daisy is making chittering noises as it staggers on the sandy ground.

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