Joanna Stern, senior personal-technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, talked about that future with Peggy Johnson, ...

The race to create the next generation of AI-powered ... has also invested in Agility Robotics. This company makes a bipedal robot called Digit, which can carry packages and walk upstairs.

Photographs by Jo Whaley for TIME; Inventions from left: On Cloudboom Strike LightSpray, Medical Microinstruments Symani Surgical System, Agility Robotics Digit holding Light Bio Firefly Petunias ...