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Oregon is in a housing crisis. The state needs to build 95,000 housing units to compensate for years of underdevelopment and to house its growing homeless population, according to a recent state report. Multifamily units-from duplexes to large apartment buildings-are one of the most efficient ways for Oregon, or any region, to quickly increase housing, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. By this metric, Oregon is failing. Local, county and state housing officials issued permit...
Jonathan Hurst is the co-founder and chief robot officer of Agility Robotics, a startup that began at Oregon State University and makes humanoid robots with artificial intelligence. The company, whose flagship robot, "Digit," is already in experimental use in everything from Amazon warehouses to Toyota manufacturing plants, is one of the best funded startups in the history of the state. Hurst, 46, is also professor of robotics at OSU. He joined the school as its first robotics professor in 2008...
