In general, people tend to focus on the practical applications of robotics research, such as sterilization robots to combat coronavirus, remote-controlled avatars for people with physical disabilities, surgical robots, and hospitality robots using Pepper, but this is only one aspect of robotics research. Also, the media often tends to focus on robots that mimic living things like humans and dogs, but simply replicating a living thing with materials and electronics put together by human hands

more »

... s not mean we "understand" (or have understood) that living thing.