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Robots that look and move like humans are getting a lot of buzz. Companies, including Amazon and GXO, are already testing humanoid robots in their warehouses.

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“Robots currently go from A to C, that is observation to action, whereas humans, and all living things, have this intermediary B step that we call physiological state,” Warner said.

However, the tissues used in the human-like models closely mimicked ours, and the robot breezed through the operation that required 17 tasks to be performed, each lasting minutes.