real world

Example Sentences

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Perhaps the biggest challenge, and one faced by all companies building humanoid robots, is developing artificial intelligence that can operate in the real world and cope with unpredictable and complicated situations.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Next, researchers trained them to understand the relationship between a reflection and the real world.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

China has more than 40 state-owned robot data-collection facilities where hundreds of on-site humans mimic train bots how to move in the real world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

As economist Tyler Cowen argued in his book “Stubborn Attachments,” the closest thing we have to a Crusonia Plant in the real world is sustainable economic growth: broad, compounding prosperity that feeds rich and poor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Then one day it is finally determined that I have become one with the real world once more—or at least am within striking distance—and I’m released into the loving arms of my family.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman