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STMicroelectronics Weighs Developing More Powerful MCUs, MPUs for Humanoid Robots

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STMicroelectronics argued that humanoid robots should use onboard sensors and cameras to handle fast reactions on the robot, and leave only whole-body coordination to a central GPU, because a round…

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