Humanoid robots with artificial intelligence have a long way to go

Elon Musk, Masayoshi Son and other tech leaders have bet on a future that includes human-like robots, but building this technology is challenging, expensive and of questionable benefit, according to an expert in robotics and artificial intelligence. “It’s incredibly difficult to make genuinely convincing humanoid robots,” said Kate Devlin, author of “Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots,” about our relationship with technology. “It’s financially expensive to build these, and they don’t really work all that well.” Devlin made the remarks during an interview for the latest episode of the Bloomberg Originals series AI IRL, available to stream now.