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Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots that can ROBOT on display at Humanoids Summit. AP photo. move their mechanical bodies like
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humans and do things that people a nascent industry. Alaoui says do. many researchers now believe Alaoui, founder of the Hu- humanoids or some other kind of manoids Summit, gathered more physical embodiment of AI are than 2,000 people this week at “going to become the norm.” the Computer History Museum “The question is really just how in Mountain View, including top long it will take,” he said. robotics engineers from Disney, Disney’s contribution to the Google and dozens of startups, to field, a walking robotic version showcase their technology and de- of “Frozen” character Olaf, will bate what it will take to accelerate [See ROBOT, page 19]
Car flips after hitting boulder BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
ROAD DEATHS RISE: Highway fatalities in California are up 60% per year since 2010. Nearly 40,000 people have died over the past decade. The crashes are blamed on repeat drunk drivers, chronic speeders and motorists with well-documented histories of recklessness behind the wheel.
A woman’s car flipped after she turned too quickly at the intersection of Coulombe Drive and Arastradero Road, hitting a rock on the bulb-out, Palo Alto police said yesterday. A woman in her 20s from Davis drove over the rock on Thursday at 7:25 p.m. and was taken to Stanford Hospital for minor injuries, Lt. Craig Lee said. Resident Ron Baker, who lives nearby, said this is one of many incidents that’ve occurred because of the bulb-out. The rock was put on the corner in 2018, when the city built the bulb-outs, Baker said. A bulb-out is where the curb is ex[See BOULDER, page 19]
BLM INDICTMENT: A federal grand jury has indicted the leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Oklahoma City over allegations that she spent millions of dollars on international trips, groceries and six homes, prosecutors said. If convicted, Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson faces up to 20 years in prison. SIGN LANGUAGE DISPUTE: President Trump is refusing to use sign-language interpreters at events, saying they intrude on his style and that viewer can simply turn on their TV set’s closed captioning function. Deaf advocates are suing over his decision to bar interpreters. FONT FIGHT: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered his employees to stop using the Calibri [See THE UPDATE, page 4] Your vision, My Guidance,
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Kevins are front runners for Fed There’s an excellent chance that the next head of the Federal Reserve will be somebody named Kevin. Fed watchers had been thinking the front-runner was Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council. But yesterday
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