Humanoid robots — really helpful ones, the sort you may encounter in day-to-day life — have lengthy been the territory of science fiction, not actuality. However their sci-fi ubiquity makes them an understandably tantalizing prospect, and “embodied AI” — AI given a bodily system — is already making a distinction on this planet. May this lastly be their second? On this month’s Spotlight cowl story, Adam Clark Estes explains what he discovered watching a robotic make lemonade, and what it tells us about the way forward for humanoid robots. Additionally on this problem: A jobless increase. The ethics of small pet possession. And remembering the person who killed smallpox.
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