A participant interacts with the humanoid robot Elixis-W from Addverb Technologies at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India on February 20, 2026.
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Paris Marx and James Vincent join us to discuss why we’re seeing humanoid robots everywhere, what motivates the pursuit of universal robots, how close we are to achieving that goal, and the social implications of achieving it.
James Vincent is a UK-based journalist and author of the following books: Beyond measurement: The hidden history of measurement from qubits to quantum constants.
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