The AIs are here: Robodogs, Amazon's Astro and more. Attachment issues!


Mia Qu, third from right, a second-year student at the University of Washington Law School, gasps in delight after making Spot, pick up a cup during the We Robot 2022 conference. — The Seattle Times/TNS

There is the Hollywood version of AI robots — the "AI" stands for "artificial intelligence" — that has given us the scary future depicted in the Terminator, Matrix, and RoboCop movies.

But at a gathering of lawyers and roboticists last week at the University of Washington, you could see the actual status of AI robots.

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