And we’ve created robots that can outperform humans in virtually all physical tasks.
Not that this is at all central to your point, but I don’t think this is true. We’re capable of building robots that move with more force and precision than humans, but mostly only in environments that are pretty simple or heavily customised for them. The cutting edge in robots moving over long distances or over rough terrain (for example) seems pretty far behind where humans are. Similarly, I believe fruit-picking is very hard to automate, in ways that seem likely to generalise to lots of similar tasks.
I also don’t think we’re very close to artificial smell, although possibly people aren’t working on it very much?
Not that this is at all central to your point, but I don’t think this is true. We’re capable of building robots that move with more force and precision than humans, but mostly only in environments that are pretty simple or heavily customised for them. The cutting edge in robots moving over long distances or over rough terrain (for example) seems pretty far behind where humans are. Similarly, I believe fruit-picking is very hard to automate, in ways that seem likely to generalise to lots of similar tasks.
I also don’t think we’re very close to artificial smell, although possibly people aren’t working on it very much?
Yes, I think you are right. Sorry, I made too broad of a statement when I only had things like strength and speed in mind.