In a future full of robots, where do humans fit in?

February 8, 2017 --Someday soon, you will ask a robot to fetch a slice of pizza from your refrigerator. On that day, you'll trust that the robot won't tear through your walls and rip the fridge door off its hinges to get at your leftovers. Getting robots to do the things humans do in the ways that humans do them (or better) without human intervention is an immensely wicked problem of autonomy. With as many as half of American jobs at risk of automation according to one study, and with an expected 10 million self driving cars on the road by 2020, robots are going to be everywhere, forever, and they won't go away. The enormous scope and scale of how autonomous robots will begin changing our lives requires the public and technologists alike to consider the challenges of autonomy.