Flipboard Science Desk<p>Researchers are rushing to build AI-powered robots. But will they work?</p><p>From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span>: "There are few parts of science and engineering that have a larger gap between expectation and reality than robotics."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/FDYt.N" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/FDYt.N</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robots</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robotics</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>