No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Robots are machines that can sense their environments and perform tasks autonomously. A humanoidrobot is a robot or machine having an app earance and/or character resembling that of a human. Humanoidrobots can be desi gned to function as team members with humans in diverse applications, such as construction, manufacturing, monitoring, exploration, learning, and entertainment. Humanoid robots can beparticularly advantageous in substituting for humans in environments that may be dangerous to humansor uninhabitable by humans.
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