机器人当然存在，但是它们绝不像电影《星球大战》中的机器人，它们只是一些非常专业化的机器，绝大部分都用于自动线。最近机器人运用得最为成功的例子是用于远程外科手术，外科医生在千里之外通过一个机器人手臂和与之连接的计算机进行手术操作。智能人形机器人似乎极不可能做到这点，虽然它们改进了很多，比如索尼的ASIMO机器人看上去像一个小型宇航员，它会握手，识别人脸，行走稳定不会摔太多跤。

    5) Artificial Intelligence 人工智力

    Sentient computers have often been presented as figures of menace, like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey or Skynet in the Terminator movies. It looks like this is one threat we don't have to worry about, though; the predictions of AI enthusiasts have been spectacularly off. While computers can excel in very specialized and number-crunching skills, nobody has yet managed to create any kind of general reasoning ability, or even taken more than the baby-steps to theorize how it could be created.

    智能电脑总是以构成威胁的形象出现 ......