According to this article I just found in New Scientist, Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories at Cherry Hill, New Jersey have developed a robot which has the ability to evade detection by humans. It knows how to sneak around and change direction enough that it won't be spotted by surveillance, from sentries in both known and unknown locations.
It creates a 3D image of its environment, and calculates lines of sight, in order to avoid them. Apparently the AI isn't up to much yet, but it is being developed and this is exciting. Unless you're worried about spy robots sneaking in to your top secret base past your spy defences.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928044.700-surveillance-robots-know-when-to-hide.html
Well in that case I don't see why they couldn't just send secret robots to watch us instead of making us fill in a tedious census form.
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