Confused by baby goats, having car nightmares, struggling to move from LA to Miami Beach — Robots are just like us, exec says

They suffer from anxiety about aggressive drivers, get bewildered by exotic pets, and even experience a form of culture shock when moving from the West Coast to the East Coast. According to a recent presentation by an autonomous delivery executive, the artificial intelligence powering today’s sidewalk robots is navigating a set of struggles that feels startlingly human.

While the public often imagines autonomous robots as cold, calculating machines, the reality of deploying them in public...