Dutch launch humanoid robot centre to ‘kickstart’ race with China
In a squat building housed on a drab business park just outside Rotterdam, sleek white humanoid robots scuttle around, accompanied by a grey robotic dog performing various canine tricks.
Welcome to the Humanoid Application Center: a hub that opened Thursday to bring together firms, researchers and technicians with the aim of closing Europe’s yawning robotics gap with the United States and China.
Humanoid robotics technology is advancing at a breakneck speed, boosted even further by artificial intelligence, said the centre’s chief executive officer Evert Jaap Lugt.
