At Qualcomm’s Uplinq conference last month, the company showed off a three-wheeled robot with a dragon head that — after receiving instructions from a tablet — could pick up different toys and sort them into the correct baskets by itself.

The demonstration highlighted Qualcomm’s belief that smartphone technology — sensors, cameras, processors and wireless connectivity — could drive the obscure robotics market closer to the mainstream.

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