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I Have a Robot, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It! In this article, I submit that the growing success of robotics at AAMAS is due not only to the nurturing efforts of the AAMAS community, but mainly to the increasing recognition of an important, deeper, truth: it is scientifically useful to roboticists and agent researchers to think of robots as agents. Today, there is a resurgent interest and recognition of the importance of robotics research framed within areas of research familiar to autonomous agents and multiagent systems researchers. Robots (and roboticists) increasingly appear at the AAMAS conferences, and for a good reason. The AAMAS community is investing efforts to encourage robotics research within itself.