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Alberto Rodriguez, director of robot behavior and AI strategy for Atlas, said a robotic hand must make trade-offs between strength, dexterity, slenderness and ruggedness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

Come for the hats, the boots, the horses, the ruggedness once used to sell cigarettes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

Even before this Eastern Conference semifinal series started, Carlisle said repeatedly his team needed to match New York’s ruggedness around the rim.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2024

Remarkably, this handwritten-digit recognition capability remained unaffected even when the device was repeatedly bent and stretched up to 1,000 times, demonstrating its ruggedness and feasibility for repeated use.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Perhaps we should return to ourselves, to our own primordial streets, to our own ruggedness, to our own rude hair.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates