(Adam Kirsch's article appeared in The Wall Street Journal, 1/16.) The intelligent, human-like machines long promised by science fiction still don't exist, but they've played an important role in the modern imagination. In 2021, robots can be forklifts or machine tools, surgical instruments or bomb defusers. As a viral video showed this month, a new, human-shaped model […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:08PM on January 17, 2021