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Just to give an idea of how hard a good autonomous robot is, there's no computer in the world that comes close to matching the flexible and creative thinking of the human brain, nor is there a computer with the lifetime of experience that human robot drivers have. Making a robot smarter than a human isn't like CADing a robot framework; it's like designing a fusion reactor in 6 weeks, especially since decades of research by professional scientists haven't been able to do it.

If anybody plays real-time strategy games, the AI in them took a whole team of well-funded programmers years to write and debug. Even so, it can't compete with even moderately experienced gamers on an equal footing, and is very easy to exploit.