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For some people closer to my age demo, maybe it was a little too much — their feet hurt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In a demo, the robot was shaky and slow, with laundry getting stuck on its claw-like hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Susanne Bieller, general secretary of the International Federation of Robotics, said humanoids with flashy skills that have impressed the public are often prototypes trained for a highly tailored demo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Wonderful World” was a demo that Keen Records put on a shelf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Craig Kallman heard his demo tape and got on the phone and said, “I want to see him now.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Much of the current humanoid hype reflects scripted demos, human-controlled teleoperation, or task-specific automation, rather than real general-purpose autonomy, they note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
With its young band cutting demos on a four-track cassette recorder, “Nimrods” could have been set in 2026, 1996 or 1976 — phones and social media are practically nonexistent in the plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
That leaves investors with a clearer path than the headlines suggest: own the platform for versality and flexibility, screen the suppliers for revenue, avoid paying up for the humanoid demos.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
While some games felt "like tech demos" according to Corey, others felt more substantial.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
This being a direct rather than a representative democracy, membership of the demos, or sovereign body, was by right rather than by election, and every decision was taken on a one-man, one-vote basis.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Grohl demoed more than 50 songs - typically in the middle of the night, many of them instrumental, touching on influences as diverse as Massive Attack, Pink Floyd and Bad Brains.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
When Musk returned to the stage a year later, he demoed a prototype called Bumblebee, with visible wires and actuators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
One of the launch partners that was demoed during the DevDay keynote was Canva, the graphic design application.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
The game was demoed to press with a wedding scene at E3 1999, and during the demo two female Sims kissed.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
Wright demoed the songs from the “Dream Weaver” LP on an array of then-novel electronic instruments, which he’d gotten interested in shortly before leaving Spooky Tooth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
At the Times Food Stage, Cassandra Peterson, known for her work as Elvira, will be demoing from her book “Elvira’s Cookbook From Hell.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
In a third, Jonathan Shobrook, a fellow, was demoing his product, Adrenaline, a tool that lets you ask natural-language questions of your code base.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
In exchange for demoing, I'd get free unlimited yoga classes.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
I’ve spent a couple of hours demoing all of the new features and the subsequent few days previewing some of the new designs in the beta that’s being released today.
From The Verge ● May 18, 2021
Kaname Hayashi will be demoing Lovot, a chick-like bot with large expressive eyes, flapping arms, wheels, and a wardrobe of clothes to cover its soft shell.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2019