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Yes, the robots are coming. But they’re not as a clever as you are. At least not yet.

My name is Cade Metz, and here at The New York Times I cover emerging technologies, which is a fancy term for cool stuff that is probably not as cool as you think it is. My stock example: driverless cars.

Driverless cars are very cool. They’re a little less cool when they’re trying to make an unprotected left-hand turn against oncoming traffic and they just sit there because, unlike human drivers, they don’t realize that there comes a time when you just have to go. Much the same applies to robots in general.

Last time in this esteemed newsletter, my colleague Steve Lohr warned that automation would change the economy. But as he also explained, jobs are “more likely to be transformed by digital technology than destroyed by it.” This becomes clear as you look a little closer at the progress of robotics, including everything from the robotic arms that help build stuff in factories to the jaw-droppingly agile machines under development at a company called Boston Dynamics.