Robots aren't as smart as you think

A few years ago I met a robot in a Japanese-style café in Osaka. She wore a traditional kimono and greeted me from where she sat in the corner of the dim room. She took my order and called it out to the barista at the bar: "One tea!" But I knew she wasn't doing it on her own--the robot understood nothing. Somewhere upstairs, I knew, must be the human controlling this hyper-realistic android.