Back in May, a sceptical team from Creandum turned up at robotics startup Machenta’s office in Archway, London, with their own props to stress-test the company’s AI model, which it said could teach a robot to perform tasks with just a single demo.
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<c>Kp qxc aenu fpnn wbts?</i>
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