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Part 5 - Designing Humanoids
Beyond Human: The New Age of Cyborgs and Androids
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To build a humanoid that can function in our world is a bold challenge being taken up by isolated labs around the world. Researchers are infusing robots with abilities ranging from grasping to hearing and vision.
Up Next in Beyond Human: The New Age of Cyborgs and Androids
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Part 7 - Can a Robot be a Person?
As robots begin to move among us, how will we regard them: as property like automobiles, or as individuals with rights and responsibilities? Can a thing be a person?
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Part 8 - Robot Soccer
To promote the rapid evolution of robots, one audacious group of researchers decided to start a worldwide robotic soccer competition. How soon before they challenge humans?
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Part 9 - Erasing the Line Between Man...
Like it or not, technology is increasingly blurring blurring the difference between humans and their machines. A new age of Cyborgs and Androids may well be upon us.