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Dr. Jan Liphardt highlights modular AI systems as key to safe, transparent robots entering human workplaces

Dr. Jan Liphardt highlights modular AI systems as key to safe, transparent robots entering human workplaces

Dr. Jan Liphardt, a researcher in physical AI systems, emphasized that robots built from modular AI components (smaller, specialized decision-making units rather than one monolithic system) perform more reliably and can be audited for safety — a critical shift as companies like Tesla and Boston Dynamics prepare to deploy humanoid robots in factories and warehouses alongside human workers.

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