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Robots aren’t great at skiing, it turns out.
While weak and puny meatsacks called humans throw themselves down ski courses at Pyeongchang, there was a sleek, elite robot skiing competition happening just outside the Winter Olympics.
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If you're a winter sports athlete, you may want to look away now.
Because robots — some of them headless — are coming for your jobs.
While the planet's finest athletes contested the fourth day of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang...
I should preface this by saying that the Winter Olympics bore me to tears and that my understanding of its strange customs are, charitably put, limited. What is the difference between ice dancing and figure skating?
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FANS of winter sports are used to paying close attention to forecasts. Few would fancy taking to the slopes in howling gusts of 50mph (80kph) or temperatures that have fallen to -26˚C (-14˚F) with wind chill.
