I just saw a lawnbot with a mechanical arm that reaches out to hand-trim your edges — and it was mesmerizing
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A consumer lawnbot with a mechanical edging arm is another example of high-DOF manipulation creeping into mundane tasks. For anyone building service robots, the bar is moving from “roam and cut” to precise, visible dexterity that users can trust around their property.
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