In the same way, Clark and Fischer said, people are aware that social robots are made of wires and sensors shaped into a depiction of a character like a little dinosaur, a pet dog, or a human ...

"The intention is not to start from the beginning and say, 'Hey, we're trying to make a robot look like a person,'" said ... meant to emphasize what it does over what it's trying to be.

In the viral video, the robot, named Atlas, walks across a warehouse floor, picks up items, skips up stairs, jumps, tosses items, and even does a backflip ... its environment like we did in ...