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> It can better detect when humans are nearby, trigger safety tool calls and bring the robot to a safe stop if someone approaches too closely.

If the robots stop when humans are too close, wouldn't that mean that robots for close interaction or handling of humans need a whole other level of control?



Also, "better" is doing a lot of lifting here, meaning it still fails regularly.


Yes. That's a whole other level of difficulty to accomplish safely.




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