AI in human-like form, such as robots or humanoid androids, has been in development for several decades, but it has not been "living" amongst humans in the way that one might imagine.
The concept of creating machines that resemble humans dates back as far as ancient mythology and literature, but modern robotics began to take shape in the mid-20th century. For instance, in the 1950s and 1960s, researchers started creating simple robots that


