Human-like robots arrive, creating a new industry within the auto industry

William Melek, right, of the RoboHub research centre, says autonomous vehicles — with their depth perception, planning, mapping and navigation — are essentially a type of robot. Alex Werner, left, is the lead humanoid robot engineer. (RoboHub)

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Rose Simone

February 25, 2020 05:05 PM

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second piece of a two-part report examining robots in Canada’s auto industry. You can read the first part here.

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