They sweep floors, guide airport travelers, swim in aquariums, and even relay the Olympic torch. In South Korea, host of the 2018 Winter Games, robots are as much on display as the athletes.

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They got out of cars, climbed stairs, opened doors – and fell. But the mechanical humans that went through their paces in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Robotics Challenge in June showed that they could assist in disasters.

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