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GM’s chief product officer opposes using humanoid robots for car manufacturing, signaling a strategic focus on AI and autonomous driving instead.
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Sterling Anderson doesn’t think humanoid robots should be building cars
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Sterling Anderson, General Motors’ chief product officer, delivers a speech during the brand's annual technology event in New York on October 21st, 2026. Photo: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images At a splashy event in New York City last week, General Motors unveiled its new tech roadmap centered on AI-driven vehicle development, advanced battery tech, high-powered car computers, and autonomous driving. Some of this was old news: We already knew the automaker was developing hands-free, eyes-off driving automation and had been prototyping new battery chemistries. In a sense, the real purpose of the event was to showcase how all these pieces fit together. With its new "intelligence-defined vehicle" paradigm, GM is banking on artificial intelligence, centralized computing, and virtualized engineering to cut vehicle development timelines … Read the full story at The Verge.
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