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In the days following the release of NMIXX's fifth EP, Heavy Serenade, the group's 23-year-old pop polymath Lily Morrow found herself scrolling through edits set to "LOUD," a self-penned track that ...

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The takeaway: For all the progress humanoid robots have made, most are still stuck performing isolated tasks in controlled environments. The problem is getting them to handle messy, multi-step work – ...

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