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 move their mechanical bodies like humans and do things that people do.
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