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Why Calling It the Robot Olympics Is a Stretch
A robot ran itself straight into a wall this year, and what happened next is the kind of clip that gets shared for the wrong reasons. Carmi Levy has been watching the robot games closely enough to know the wall isn't the interesting part. What he's noticed is a technology moving faster than the label being slapped on it.
That label is the real argument. If a person driving a controller counts as an athlete, does a machine with no human touching it at all get to stand next to them under the same word. Carmi Levy and Shane land on opposite sides of where that line sits, and neither one backs…
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