This doesn't surprise me based on my own reading. Perception is a very hard problem to crack. Also, even a seemingly simple task like driving involves situation

This doesn't surprise me based on my own reading. Perception is a very hard problem to crack. Also, even a seemingly simple task like driving involves situations requiring "human-level" decision making and judgement. Also interesting was this link from the article: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/robots-are-caring-for-elderly-people-in-europe http://motherboard.vice.com/read/robots-are-caring-for-elder... The obvious answer to the robots-taking-the-jobs argument is that the world population is aging and there's already a shortage of medical care and nursing home staff.