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> That was obvious to anyone with any experience with real-world robots.

Yup. Exactly. The term for this is "Telechir":

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-93104-8_...

My kids have been around lots of robots of all kinds. The very first comment they made while watching the event was: "The robots are being remotely operated. There's no way that's autonomous."

Nice looking machines. Far from being practical outside of a highly controlled environment. This does feel like progress though.



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