Robot can read, learn like a human

For her age, Marge is pretty smart. She can find and correct misspelled words. She taught herself that Barclays is a bank, Strada is a restaurant, and that both are in the UK. She is even smart enough to read The New York Times and the BBC Online. And soon she will take her first steps, or more accurately, her first rotations, into the real world.

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