The New Robotics ‘Arms Race’: Who Can Do the Craziest Hype Video?

A couple months ago, a humanoid robot was dispatched to the top of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, the surface point farthest from the center of the planet. It was a stunt arranged by Geologic Dome, a nonprofit that uses AI and robotics for nature conservation, which had obtained the robot from the robotics arm of Virtuals Protocol, a crypto startup. Along with the robot, Geologic Dome sent a videographer, who hauled up three cameras to shoot clips the nonprofit could use to promote its cause....