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Immigrants from the future

According to the Economist, offer a unique insight into what people want from technology – and that makes their progress peculiarly fascinating. DARPA, the Pentagon agency which runs the DRC, has made robots a priority because it suspects that the technology may be on the cusp of scaling great heights. This fascination has produced robots of many shapes and sizes – with the purpose of transcending technology’s current practical uses. Read more to find out more about these ‘immigrants from the future’ and how they are about to reshape our world.

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