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The Christmas season is in full swing, and those of us who know that (spoiler alert!) Santa Claus doesn’t exist know instead that there’s a good chance some of our gifts will come from Amazon.com. Just in time for the busy holiday season, Amazon unveiled its eighth-generation fulfillment center on Cyber Monday, complete with robotic “elves” that are helping things...

While we’ve discussed military[1] and humanoid robots that walk and climb stairs, commenters on our robot stories have speculated what might happen when military humanoid robots start using weapons. That future may be closer than we think. A humanoid robot that robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics has been developing for DARPA now has arms. This Pet-Proto, based on the company’s previous...