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For the second time this year since January, crowds gathered in Newell-Simon last Friday for a demonstration of one of the most startling accomplishments in artificial intelligence and robotics yet: QRIO. A play on the word ?curious,? the two-and-a-half-foot-tall silver figure charmed the audience with its grace and agility.

Manufactured by Sony Electronics, QRIO is a humanoid robot that can respond to voices and faces, and interact with people to a great extent. Todd Kozuki, a Carnegie Mellon alum and software development engineer for Sony, was there to present QRIO.

QRIO is a technological masterpiece, if only because it is autonomous rather than remote-controlled. Kozuki amazed the crowd as he put QRIO through its paces. The robot performed...

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