The next humanoid robot might not look human at all

The next humanoid robot might not have a head. It might not have legs. It might even sit on a wheeled base and fold down like a deck chair. But, as Genesis AI puts it, “humanoid robots don’t need to look human.”

That explains the look of Eno, the new robot from the French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Genesis says Eno is designed “around human capability” rather than human appearance and is intended as a fully “general-purpose” robot rather than a machine built around a single task, like folding laundry. One part is still very human though: its hands, which the company says are designed to “exactly match the form and fu …

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