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HUMANOID ROBOTS AND EXISTENCE

ROBO GENO Robots taking large steps to coexist with Humans  Madrid's regional president, Ignacio Gonzalez, attends the 14th edition of the 'Humanoid' Congress in Madrid, Spain, 2014. EFE/Juan Carlos Hidalgo Madrid, Nov 19 (EFE).- Humanoid robots endowed with human-like features are taking bold strides towards coexisting with humans in their daily activities, such as helping elderly people, therapeutic training, providing medication to patients or babysitting children at home. More than 400 experts are participating in a three-day conference that opened on Wednesday in Madrid on humanoid robotics called "Humanoids." It is considered the largest conference in the world in this field, organized by the Carlos III University (UC3) in the Spanish capital. This is the fourteenth edition of the conference, which runs until Thursday and is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The ev