SB pal Quinn Norton reports from a leading Korean robotics lab: software bots, genetic programming, and robotic personality are all on the menu.

“Someone said that men make robots because they can’t have babies,” says Naveen Kuppuswamy, gesturing across his cluttered lab to where an 20-inch high mechanical biped stands inert on a center table. “That’s our baby.”

Wired News: The Seoul of a New Machine

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