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Machines can't do everything humans can—at least not well—but one curling robot is attempting to change that.
The appropriately named robot Curly just mastered the art of curling and beat two Korean national teams. A group of researchers in South Korea and Germany built the AI-based robot that can play the sport professionally.
The researchers published a paper on Curly in Science Journal and said the robot won three of four matches "against expert human teams"—South Korea's top-ranked women's curling team and a reserve squad for the national wheelchair team–slightly narrowing the gap between machines and humans.