Washington needs to get serious about robotics

After years of treating robotics policy as a novelty or niche concern, Washington is finally beginning to wake up to reality: we cannot win the race for artificial intelligence leadership if we ignore the robotics race.

Artificial intelligence is software. Robotics is hardware. The two are inextricably linked. A national AI strategy that doesn’t include robotics is not a national AI strategy but a mere half-measure. And as China pours state resources into dominating both AI and robotics ...