I can count on one hand how many robot demos that I've seen of an advanced robotic system that worked the first time.

They always have to restart it and they always apologize and it's you know what I mean?

It's like robotics is really difficult difficult I joke that like I will

worry about robots waking up and taking over the world and killing us you know the first time I see a

robot demo that works without having to start over. Welcome to GeekWire.

I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.

We're coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in

technology business and innovation.

What happens here matters everywhere and each week on the show we talk about some of the

most interesting tech and business stories and issues in the news. My guest this week is Ryan

Kalo. He is a University of Washington law professor who specializes in areas

including privacy, artificial intelligence, and robots.

Ryan, it's great to have you here.

Todd, I'm so glad to be here, thank you.

We also wanted to have you on because you are one of the organizers of We Robot, which is an annual conference where scholars and

tech practitioners discuss legal and policy questions related to robots and

artificial intelligence as well and it's taking place this year in Seattle

at the University of Washington

from September 14th through 16th.

And it raises a ton of interesting issues.

And Ryan, I was actually looking back this conference has been

held since 2012 it started at the University of Miami if my research is correct and I looked

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