Get Ready For The Robot Smog

DJI's Phantom In Flight Also pictured: NYC's famous Flatiron Building. Dan Bracaglia Ah, the good old days when your microwave stayed put where you left it. Introducing autonomous robots into everyday life is not going to be a smooth leap into a more-convenient future--it will be loud, uncomfortable, and very annoying, says Carnegie Mellon robotics professor Illah Nourbakhsh. In a new article for The New Yorker, Nourbakhsh writes: Today, interactions with machines generally occur on our own term...