10 AI-powered Robots to watch for in 2023

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1. Boston Dynamics Atlas

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2. Optimus Gen-2

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3. Unitree's general-purpose humanoid robot

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4. Ameca from Engineered Arts

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5. Figure 01

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6. evoBot

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7. Amazon Digit

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8. Disney Research's robotic character

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9. Alter3 powered by GPT-4

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10. 1X's Eve

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