physical work

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Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Mind Robotics is building AI-powered robots that can perform physical work in Rivian automotive plants and other factories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

On Wednesday, the full power of healthcare’s role burst into full view, and marked a clear shift in a labor market now geared toward the hard, often physical, work of caring for America’s aging population.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Dr Ceri Bradshaw, a psychologist at Swansea University, said there was a risk that people could be "easily tricked" by snappy, 60-second cleaning videos that in reality take hours of physical work.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

“I’m eating about 4,000 calories a day, but the amount of physical work I’m doing, you end up hungry at the end of the day, which is quite surprising,” he told the magazine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

Breakdancing involved extremely taxing physical work, but it was work that filled me with joy and purpose.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi