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tech futures.Introduction to AI

Lesson 2: Different Types of AI

More Examples of Embodied AI

Warehouses: Amazon's robots navigate shelves, identify objects, and hand off to humans for tricky tasks.

Surgery: the Da Vinci robot assists surgeons with precision movements too fine for human hands.

Disaster zones: robots enter collapsed buildings or nuclear sites where it's too dangerous for humans.

Agriculture: robots identify and pick ripe fruit, or spray only the weeds instead of the whole field.

Boston Dynamics' Spot: a dog-like robot that can open doors, climb stairs, and inspect construction sites.

Spot from Boston Dynamics