Robots are taking over!

Robotic engineers are seeking research to make robots more functionally like humans; able to perform complex tasks humans would consider effortless, able to move about and function as humans do, etc.

Contention exists about how to even begin start programming something to function this way, bottom-up vs. top-down.

Tests with robots and their humanistic capabilities so far prove to be extremely 'brittle' and slow-paced.  They falter if single variables are changed in the slightest fashion.  They move at a fraction of the pace we function at.

New York Times

Research and funding abound, people are hopeful and positive in what will eventually be discovered.

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