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They lurch and waddle. They fall, a lot. They cluster around the ball like a herd of mechanical toddlers at a Saturday morning scrimmage. Soccer may be the beautiful game, but there is nothing elegant about watching robots play it, even as we come up on the 25th anniversary of the Robot World Cup, or “RoboCup.”…

An industrial robotic arm is an unusual choice for a dance partner, but it was the one sought after by Dr. Merritt Moore, a former dancer with the Norwegian National Ballet. Moore is also a quantum physicist and graduated with a PhD in atomic and laser physics from the University of Oxford in 2018. She’s…