Amazon Is Quietly Building the Robots of Sci-Fi--Piece by Practical Piece

Science fiction is the siren song of hard science. How many innocent young students have been lured into complex, abstract science, technology, engineering, or mathematics because of a reckless and irresponsible exposure to Arthur C. Clarke at a tender age? Yet Arthur C. Clarke has a very famous quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A magic leap that would change the world. They could match us in dexterity and speed, perceive the world around them as we do, and be programmed to do, well, more or less anything we can do.